Inside The Air Force’s Flying Radar Fleet

so getting the E-7 in service quick is a no-brainer....right ?

I wonder what are the chances of seeing 3 of them taking off one after another 2 days apart over Turkey, Bulgaria, Greece?

e3 sentry the poseidon or a v22..................

yup

Hehe big radar on plane go spin

😂😂😂😂

Another 1960s Russian military technology (Tu-126 Moss AWACS) copied by the west...cool

Love how the Chinese lady rides the Chinese side…disgusting. GO USA

Hey mom I’m on the news

Amazing indeed

Biggest terorist is usa usa usa usa usa terorist country

They should just integrate the awacs tech into the f35 fleet

What's up with the amateur video production and acting here?

If we could rotate the disk down and relay high power ray from ground to target but would be better to safely on ground control unmanned mirror drone to relay extreme power radar up to mega wat

It's great to see that it can actually detect Chinese spy balloons. We need more of these planes!

Just get the E-7 Wedgetail and move on.

It's really cool to see how virtual reality has become an essential training tool.

Living in OKC near the base, you see these things all the time. It's so cool to be driving on I40 and watch one of them go over your head to land.

CNBC's reports are incredibly interesting.

Murica China is coming for ya and they’re going smack Murica around

Where is US defence spending 800 billion dollars if not upgrading AWACS fleet ??

Able to pinpoint an Afghan wedding with insane accuracy 😩🫡

Buy ex airline 777-200LR that plane can fly a long time without refueling

The other thing that could be done with the E-3 aside from replacing would be for Boeing to do a complete rebuild of the airframe including replacing its' engines along with upgrading its' avionic including a modern glass-cockpit.

I wonder if the e3 was used for interference on the spy balloon since it was likely looking for radar signals from the ground

End U think. that this aircraft can not be destryed ? U will seee soon.

my dad flew those things for about 6 years before he caught a virus that destroyed his lungs and he lost his flight status. went to law school and finished his career as a JAG attorney.

I have to ask a question: Is that Video been published to say: "Yeah there was a chinese spy balloon but don't worry, we still have air traffic control capabilities"?

Its strange seeing the 707 airframe still in service despite the fact that all of the airliner 707's have been retired

Shouldn't it be, AWECS? I thought the Poseidon was based on the 737... Oh well, GD army jeep!

Also the E-2C, now E-2D, of USN. It's a remarkable aircraft, with arguably the same capabilities - and even better capabilities - than USAF's E-3.

I remember when the last RCAF 707 left a base near me, and headed to the USAF for conversion. 🇨🇦 Veteran

The E-7 is basically blind fore and aft owing to the lousy performance of the tophat antenna.

FEWER.

Did the USAF just throw out personal grooming standards all together or what?

"modern avionics". The avionics: 👴

Air superiority!

Wonder how many AWACS we could have bought with $100Billion

What a great time to be broadcasting this lol.

its so cute, when chinese experts on american defense systems are considered the norm. sell away america. the whole of asia is waiting for the fall of america. long live your chinese experts.

the AWACS plane and the SR-71 Blackbird are the two aircrafts which fascinated me the most for all times. Allegedly the AWACS radar plane is able to communicate interdimensional, i.e. they can exchange information betwenn parallel universes.. The SR-71 is said to be the only plane that is able to manage and perform time jumps, just like the DeLorean in the BTTF franchise. When you think about recent developments it all makes sense.

The phrase "To put it in context, if the E-3 was a car in Virginia, it would qualify for antique license plates." sums up how old the E-3 is.

The Air Force announced in 2022 that it will replace part of the E-3 Sentry fleet with Boeing E-7 Wedgetails, which are twin-engine airborne early warning and control (AEW&C) aircraft based on the Boeing 737 Next Generation (737NG) design.

Ok so given the range and capabilities of the plane we are directly taking part in this war; we are at war with Russia if we dare to use this over there. Information like what this plane can provide is more deadly than any Ukrainian bullet to the Russians... now I see why Ukraine's artillery is so effective. You a-holes are playing with a fire your little brains don't seem to care about.