The vital but rapidly aging Air Force E-3 Sentry is back in the Middle East while a replacement could still be years away.

US Air Force tankers and E-3 AWACS mass in Saudi Arabia amid Iran tensions. Satellite imagery confirms 16 KC-135 refuelling ...

The first E-7A is expected to be fielded by 2027, with a total expected order for 26 aircraft. The Department of the Air Force is moving on with the E-7 to replace the aging E-3 Airborne Warning And ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A stock picture of US Air Force E-3 AWACS aircraft at Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia in 2022. Readers can first get caught ...

Update: This story was updated April 4 with additional information from the Air Force on capabilities it requested for its E-7s. AURORA, Colo. — For nearly 50 years, the E-3 Sentry aircraft served as ...

The U.S.-Iran standoff has moved into the skies, with Washington surging a large share of its aging E-3 Sentry “flying radar” fleet toward Europe and the Middle East. In just days, the U.S. Air Force ...

One of the outstanding military innovations of the Cold War years was the E-3 Sentry radar plane, which could monitor airborne and maritime traffic over great distances from a modified Boeing BA 707 ...

The Boeing E-3 AWACS has been the quarterback of the skies for nearly 50 years, a flying radar station able to detect enemy planes and missiles and then give recommendations to friendly pilots. The ...

Raytheon Technologies‘ (NYSE: RTX) Collins Aerospace business has secured a potential 10-year, $99.6 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to perform sustaining engineering work on avionics of the ...