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- The Boeing E-7 Wedgetail is a twin-engine airborne early warning and control aircraft based on the Boeing 737 Next Generation design. It has a fixed, active electronically scanned array radar antenna instead of a rotating one as with the 707-based Boeing E-3 Sentry.
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The Boeing E-7 Wedgetail is a twin-engine airborne early warning and control aircraft based on the Boeing 737 Next Generation design. It has a fixed, active electronically scanned array radar antenna instead of a rotating one as with the 707-based Boeing E-3 Sentry.
Mar 1, 2023 · The E-7, which the service hopes to first field in fiscal 2027, is a modernized battlefield management aircraft originally developed for the Royal Australian Air Force and dubbed the...
- Stephen Losey
It’s the Wedgetail: Air Force to buy E-7 to replace AWACS. By Stephen Losey. Apr 26, 2022. A Boeing-made Australian E-7A Wedgetail Airborne Early Warning and Control aircraft...
- Stephen Losey
Jan 5, 2024 · TUKWILA and RENTON, Wash. — Aerospace giant Boeing plans to ramp up production of the E-7 Wedgetail to an ambitious six planes per year to keep up with burgeoning global demand, according...
- Michael Marrow
Nov 15, 2023 · NATO had decided to replace its fleet of 14 E-3A AWACS (Airborne Warning And Control System) aircraft with six new E-7A Wedgetail aircraft, after a consortium of Allies approved this...
Mar 1, 2023 · The U.S. Air Force will replace the E-3 Sentry with the E-7 Wedgetail. The planes, equipped with massive radar arrays, are designed to detect enemy aircraft and manage aerial battles....
Mar 23, 2023 · The Royal Australian Air Force calls its E-7 the Wedgetail, but the U.S. has not decided on its own E-7′s name. The U.S. Air Force plans to first buy two rapid prototype E-7s, with the...
