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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

November 5, 2025: The United States retired the last of its E-3 AWACS/Airborne Warning and Control System in 2023. The Air Force initially wanted to replace the four-engine E-3 AWACS with the ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. TINKER AIR FORCE BASE, Okla. (KFOR) – On a ...

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 ...

The U.S. Air Force has surged operations of its E-3 “flying radar” AWACS aircraft across the Middle East after Iranian strikes reportedly destroyed key ground-based radar systems used by Israel and ...

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 ...

For three weeks, NATO E-3A aircraft ‘flew surveillance and monitoring missions in an airspace north of Iceland as part of wider NATO joint vigilance operations’. Italian and French Airborne Early ...