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    The Boeing E-3 Sentry is an American airborne early warning and control (AEW&C) aircraft developed by Boeing. E-3s are commonly known as AWACS (Airborne...
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    707-based Boeing E-3 Sentry. The E-7 was designed for the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) under "Project Wedgetail" and designated E-7A Wedgetail. The...
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    The Alaska Boeing E-3 Sentry accident was the September 22, 1995 crash of a United States Air Force Boeing E-3 Sentry airborne early warning aircraft...
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    opposed to a modification of an existing airframe, such as the Boeing E-3 Sentry. Variants of the Hawkeye have been in continuous production since 1960...
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    Air Self-Defense Force's requirements. It is essentially the Boeing E-3 Sentry's surveillance radar and air control system installed on a Boeing 767-200...
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  • Look up sentry in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Sentry or The Sentry may refer to: Sentry (Kree) Sentry (Curtis Elkins) Sentry (Robert Reynolds) Senator...
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    1991, the E-6 was the final new derivative of the Boeing 707 to be built. Like the E-3 Sentry Airborne Warning and Control System aircraft, the E-6 is adapted...
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  • Grumman E-10 MC2A was planned as a multi-role military aircraft to replace the Boeing 707-based E-3 Sentry and E-8 Joint STARS, the Boeing 747-based E-4B,...
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    converted to freighter configurations. Military derivatives include the E-3 Sentry airborne reconnaissance aircraft and the C-137 Stratoliner VIP transport...
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  • Thumbnail for British Aerospace Nimrod AEW3
    purchasing new build Boeing E-3 Sentry aircraft to fulfil the AEW requirement. In the mid 1960s, following the development of the Grumman E-2 Hawkeye carrier-borne...
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    Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is the main operating base of the NATO Boeing E-3 Sentry Component, one of two operational elements of the NATO Airborne Early...
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  • Sentry (Robert "Bob" Reynolds) is a superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by Paul Jenkins and Jae Lee, with uncredited...
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    such as the Fairey Gannet AEW.3 and Lockheed EC-121 Warning Star, and continues to be used by the RAF for its Sentry AEW1, while AEW&C (airborne early...
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    radomes. On airborne early warning and control (AEW&C) aircraft (e.g. the American E-3 Sentry), a discus-shaped rotating radome, often called a "rotodome"...
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    707 served as the basis for several specialized versions, such as the E-3 Sentry AWACS aircraft. The designation C-18 covers several later variants based...
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    that will only function remote from the fuselage, for example the Boeing E-3 Sentry radar is housed in a nacelle called a radome. Edward Turner used the term...
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    covering a 120-degree sector, unlike the rotating radome on the comparable E-3 Sentry serving the United States Air Force. The KJ-2000 is a second-generation...
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    C-130A-H models, slightly higher than) the pilots. On the P-3 Orion, E-6B Mercury and E-3 Sentry the FE is responsible for starting and shutting down engines...
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    been scrapped included control by AEW&C aircraft such as the E-2 Hawkeye and E-3 Sentry. Originally proposed by VADM Joseph Metcalf, DCNO Surface Warfare...
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    Boeing T-7 Red Hawk Boeing 737 AEW&C (E-7 Wedgetail) Boeing Model 42 Boeing YAL-1 Airborne Laser Boeing E-3 Sentry (an Airborne Early Warning and Control...
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  • aircraft, such as the E-3 Sentry airborne warning and control system. The E-3 Sentry is in the process of being replaced by the E-7A Wedgetail. The Mobility...
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    development KJ-2000 Aircraft of comparable role, configuration, and era Boeing E-3 Sentry (AWACS) EL/W-2090 "А-50". Уголок неба [Corner of the Sky] (in Russian)...
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    bomber flies over the Pacific Ocean An E-3 Sentry AWACS aircraft One of 4 E-4B Nightwatch airborne command posts A new E-11 aircraft being rolled out in 2018...
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    cancelled in 1986 in favour of an off-the-shelf solution in the Boeing E-3 Sentry. All Nimrod variants had been retired by mid-2011. On 4 June 1964, the...
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    operated the Boeing E-3D Sentry AEW1 (AWACS) from RAF Waddington, Lincolnshire. As of 2020, the RAF AWACS fleet was made up of three Sentry AEW1s, down from...
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    "USAF Retires First Active-Duty E-3B Sentry From Service". key.aero. Retrieved 21 November 2023. McFadden, Christopher (3 March 2023). "U.S. Air Force spends...
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    program. E-10 MC2A - the Northrop Grumman E-10 was to be a 767-400ER-based replacement for the USAF's 707-based E-3 Sentry AWACS, Northrop Grumman E-8 Joint...
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  • Thumbnail for IBM System/4 Pi
    avionics computers used, in various versions, on the F-15 Eagle fighter, E-3 Sentry AWACS, Harpoon Missile, NASA's Skylab, MOL, and the Space Shuttle, as...
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    the replacement of its current fleet of E-3 Sentry aircraft. In November 2023 NATO decided to procure the Boeing E-7 Wedgetail. "Saab launches GlobalEye...
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  • 2000-5F 65 26 AWACS Boeing E-3 Sentry United States AEW&C E-3F 4 Reconnaissance Dassault Falcon 8X France SIGINT / ELINT 0 3 on order Beechcraft Super...
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