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Late 80s (88-90) US Navy Program to replace the E-3C, S-3B and EA-6B carrier-based AEW, ASW and EW aircraft. I believe it evolved into the E-X program to replace the E-2, this is why i’m attaching the image of the Boeing E-X proposal, which is seen here in ASW markings. (VS-24 scouts was an S-3...

I found an article in the Dornier Post about their ideas for a small, relatively cheap AEW aircraft based on the Do228. The radar they chose was the Thorn EMI Skymaster mounted in 2 different version, either in the nose or in a radome on top of the aircraft. Do-Post_88-2

I found this leaflet showing military variants of the A310. The Airbus MRTT is a wide-bodied multi-role tanker transport based on the Airbus A310-300. It is ideally sized to replace the current generation of strategic tankers, particularly KC-135/B707 or VC10 based aircraft. It provides the...

1983, rather than 1982 is a key date for decisions for the RN and UK defence as a whole, in the light of the Falklands and it's effect not just on defence thinking but on the UK populace's attitude to their country. As surely as it was to the political establishment. But in terms of changes a...

Airship Industries (UK) Ltd teamed up with Westinghouse Electric Corporation to develop the civilian SkyShip 5000 and the United States Navy YEZ-2A Sentinel 5000 Airborne Early Warning (AEW) airship in the mid-1980s. In 1990, Airship Industries collapsed and the company became Westinghouse...

ASW and AWACS navy project. Related aircrafts are here: http://www.secretprojects.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,353.0.html