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

In November, a deal collapsed when multiple European allies of the United States ditched plans and aborted a multi-billion-euro plan to collectively procure six Boeing E-7A Wedgetail airborne warning ...

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 ...

The United States has reportedly begun using Turkish airspace to monitor Iranian military activity, signaling a possible escalation in the regional standoff. An American AWACS surveillance aircraft ...

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

One of the outstanding military innovations of the Cold War years was the E-3 Sentry radar plane, which could monitor airborne and maritime traffic over great distances from a modified Boeing BA 707 ...

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 ...

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) ...

February 28, 2018: Japan is spending $61 million to upgrade its four E-767 AWACS (Air Warning And Control) aircraft. Each of the Japanese AWACS will fly to the United States for the work to be done ...