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  • Air Force Orders First E-7 Jets To Replace Aging E-3 Sentry

    03/02/2023 7:57:08 AM PST · by Alas Babylon! · 8 replies
    The Drive ^ | 1 Mar 2023 | Thomas Newdick
    The U.S. Air Force has contracted Boeing to build the first two of potentially 26 E-7A Wedgetail radar planes. Boeing is to kick off work on the U.S. Air Force’s new airborne early warning and control (AEW&C) aircraft, with a contract to develop a version of the E-7 Wedgetail radar plane for the service. The Air Force will use the E-7 to replace at least some of its 31 remaining 707-based E-3 Sentry Airborne Warning And Control System, or AWACS, aircraft, which have been struggling with poor mission-capable rates — the Air Force’s metric that reflects levels of operational readiness....