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

The United States has reportedly begun using Turkish airspace to monitor Iranian military activity, signaling a possible ...

NATO surveillance aircraft are keeping an eye on the alliance’s southern border amid ongoing tensions between the United States and Iran.

A Russian AWACS has gone up in flames, leaving military analysts and officials scrambling to assess the damage. This high-value aircraft was meant to control and coordinate air operations, but it was ...

Much is still to be learned about the Navy’s plans for AESM, but the Navy certainly seems to have kicked off a new hunt for ...

The shrunken E-3 fleet isn't getting any younger, and a replacement is still far off while demand for its services would be far greater in the Pacific.

NATO is sending long-range surveillance aircraft to Lithuania for a mission across the Baltics, the alliance said in a recent statement. The first of three E-3A AWACS planes is currently operating out ...

The AWACS radar plane first flew over 50 years ago, and is overdue for replacement. The US Air Force’s fleet of E-3 airborne warning and control system (AWACS) radar planes is on its last legs. The ...

BRUSSELS, Nov 15 (Reuters) - NATO will replace its ageing fleet of AWACS surveillance planes, in service since the Cold War in the 1980s, with a militarised version of the Boeing 737 commercial jet, ...

The Air Force wants to hear more from defense contractors on how they would provide a prototype replacement for the E-3 Sentry, or AWACS, aircraft by 2028. (Tech. Sgt. Gregory Brook/Air Force) ...

After over two years, NATO's fleet of 14 Airborne Warning And Control System (AWACS) aircraft have completed a major cockpit upgrade. In Manching, Germany, Boeing delivered the last modernized Sentry ...