airborne early warning

  1. R

    EC-121 Proliferation?

    The USN acquired 142 Lockheed EC121s in the early 50s to mount long-range early warning barrier patrols in the Atlantic and Pacific. The main strength was 5 sqns for each ocean with various cats and dogs supporting units. The barrier patrol lasted until 1965 and afterwards the USN transferred 30...
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    • airborne early warning alternate history central intelligence agency cold war elint great britain imperial iranian air force imperial state of iran japan japan air self-defense force late 1960s lockheed north atlantic treaty organisation republic of china air force royal air force royal australian air force sigint united states united states air force united states navy
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    • Forum: Alternative History and Future Speculation
  2. Forest Green

    RAF AEW&C - E-7A Wedgetail

    View: https://x.com/AirPowerNEW1/status/1818080247754948968
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    • airborne early warning cold war ii north atlantic treaty organisation royal air force royal australian air force united states air force
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    • Forum: Aviation & Space
  3. Grey Havoc

    Avro Shackleton

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avro_Shackleton
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    • airborne early warning cold war maritime patrol aircraft raf coastal command royal air force south african air force type 696 type 716
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    • Forum: Military
  4. overscan (PaulMM)

    CASC Caihong-7 (CH-7) UCAV

    Via https://twitter.com/HenriKenhmann Length 10m, wingspan 22m, MTOW 13t, cruise at 13km / 0.6Ma, Vmax 0.75Ma. Positioning: Strategic recognition and strikes high value targets. First flight 2019, serial production 2022.
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    • 2018 2020s airborne early warning close air support cold war ii drone electronic warfare late 2010s people's liberation army people's liberation army air force people's republic of china sead strategic reconnaissance ucav
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    • Forum: Aviation & Space
  5. Grey Havoc

    Airborne Fleet Air Defense System - MSDF

    This was a program, possibly inspired by the B-1C and related proposals, to procure a number of P-3C based variants equipped with the AWG-9 Radar and the Phoenix missile (likely the AIM-54C ECCM/Sealed version), for the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force. The program began as a TRDI program in...
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    • 1980s air defence airborne early warning cold war hughes aircraft company hughes missile systems group interceptor interceptors japan japan defense agency japan maritime self-defense force jsdf kawasaki kawasaki heavy industries mitsubishi mitsubishi heavy industries strategic defence trdi
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    • Forum: Secret Postwar Aircraft Projects
  6. Triton

    RAAF Wedgetail AEW&C proposals and early designs

    Raytheon Systems Company, Elta Division of Israeli Aircraft Industries, and Airbus Industries A130-based submission for the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) Project Wedgetail Airborne Early Warning and Control System (AEW&C) system. The team also included Hawker de Havilland, Honeywell...
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    • 2010s 2020s airborne early warning cold war ii commonwealth of australia north atlantic treaty organisation post-cold war royal air force royal australian air force united states air force
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    • Forum: Secret Postwar Aircraft Projects
  7. Caravellarella

    Beyond the One-Eleven - British Aircraft Corporation BAC 1-11 projects......

    Dear Boys and Girls, here is an article describing the BAC X-Eleven "project" for a (then) new technology short-medium range jet airliner with CFM-56 engines. This "project" has a wider fuselage cross-section than the standard BAC 1-11. I believe this was the final attempt to make a stand-alone...
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    • airborne early warning british aircraft corporation cfm international civil aviation cold war great britain întreprinderea de avioane bucurești japan air self-defense force japan maritime self-defense force jsdf maritime patrol aircraft rolls-royce royal air force socialist republic of romania
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    • Forum: Secret Postwar Aircraft Projects
  8. Nick

    UK AEW 1980s replacement competition

    Back in the 80s it was finally realised that the Avro Shackleton AEW was obsolete and later that the Nimrod AEW.3 project was very unlikely to work correctly. The UK Government and MoD went looking for a replacement and settled on the E-3D Sentry which entered RAF service in 1990. What were the...
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    • air defence airborne early warning awacs cold war great britain late 1980s north atlantic treaty organisation raf strike command royal air force uk air defence region
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    • Forum: Aviation & Space
  9. Triton

    Westinghouse Airship Industries SkyShip 5000 and Sentinel 5000

    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...
  10. Mike Pryce

    BAe Nimrod AEW.3

    The preferred UK AEW for the RAF was always the Nimrod as it was big and in production. In 1966 studies looked at various radar options, but lack of money delayed it. All of the above comes from 'Airborne Early Warning, design, development and operations' by Mike Hirst, Osprey, 1983.
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    • 1960s 1970s 1980s air defence airborne early warning british aerospace plc cold war gec-marconi gec-marconi electronics ltd great britain hawker siddeley aviation ltd north atlantic treaty organisation raf fighter command raf strike command royal air force uk air defence region
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    • Forum: Aviation & Space
  11. boxkite

    SOR 206 : E-3 AWACS competitors

    Hi, it's my first day at the forum. So I want to ask for a very ordinary subject. Besides the later winner of the AWACS competition, the Boeing EC-137D (early_awacs_2.jpg shows an early configuration with radome mounted on the tip of the tail), there was another competitor, a DC-8 development...
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    • adcom aerospace defense command airborne early warning awacs cold war early 1970s late 1960s north atlantic treaty organisation united states united states air force
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    • Forum: Secret Postwar Aircraft Projects
  12. flateric

    OKB Korchagin Typhoon multirole carrier-based aircraft

    From Krylya Rodiny 6-2004. No timeframe of project was described.
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    • 1970s 1980s airborne early warning anti-submarine warfare anti-surface warfare asuw asw cold war electronic warfare red fleet soviet navy soviet union tanker aircraft ussr
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    • Forum: Secret Postwar Aircraft Projects
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