The Effort To Replace The US Military's Radar Planes Isn't Going To Plan

The U.S. military currently relies on an antiquated fleet of E-3 Sentries for orchestrating battlefield assets in war zones.
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USAF Procurement of E-7 Wedgetail at Risk of Cancellation

Comments made by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth during House and Senate Appropriations Committee hearings have cast severe doubts on the future of the U.S. Air Force’s E-7 Wedgetails. On Jun. 10, ...
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Air Defense: AWACS Shrink to Survive

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 ...
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Collins Aerospace Receives $100M Air Force Contract to Maintain E-3 AWACS Avionics

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 ...
The Aviationist

NATO Shelves Plans to Buy E-7 Wedgetail

After selecting the Boeing 737-based E-7 Wedgetail in 2023 to replace the E-3 Sentry, the group of nations leading the procurement of NATO’s next airborne early warning aircraft have now reversed ...