Credit: U.S. Defense Department NATO officials are growing anxious about the slow pace of finalizing plans to replace the alliance’s flagship E-3A Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) early ...
After slowly taxiing towards the runway at NATO’s Geilenkirchen airbase in Germany, the pilots go full throttle and the decades-old E-3 Sentry surveillance plane screams as it gains speed and lifts ...
After selecting the Boeing 737-based E-7 Wedgetail in 2023 to replace the E-3 Sentry, the group of nations leading the procurement of NATO’s next airborne early warning aircraft have now reversed ...
Germany says it is considering an acquisition of Saab GlobalEye airborne early warning aircraft as part of its involvement in the NATO program to replace aging Boeing E-3 Sentry Airborne Warning and ...
The E-3 Sentry is afflicted by acute parts and maintenance issues as the Boeing 707 aircraft it is based on ceased production 30 years ago. Nearly three months after the fuselage of the U.S. Air Force ...