Boeing E-7 Wedgetail AEW&C

Good news to hear that the RAF Wedgetail will be based at Lossiemouth alongside the Poseidon aircraft fleet, makes sense to base the two together.
 
Regarding the vulnerability of this type of platform: it should boted that they spend the overwhelming majority of their work operating in peacetime, and even in war, against non peers. I think even the VKS would struggle to kill an AWACs protected by fifth gen aircraft; I suspect their fighters would struggle to make it to the FEBA. For the U.S. facing the PRC, other options need to be developed. But even then an AWACs is perfectly useful in peacetime.
 
aim9xray said:
Buried in the story: "The E-7 Wedgetail has also recently been selected by NATO as their next command and control aircraft." I, for one, missed this news.
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20 years too late... Granted there were a couple of problems during its development but Turkey, South Korea and Australia were spot on for procuring this aircraft when it first came out.

I don't know if they've changed anything from the base design for these new-found customers; i mean It's an excellent AEW aircraft but I also think that it needs to go under a quarter life update real soon.
 
2 years to wait from now! (or will that be shorter with the committed effort to increase productivity).
 
Josh_TN said:
Regarding the vulnerability of this type of platform: it should boted that they spend the overwhelming majority of their work operating in peacetime, and even in war, against non peers. I think even the VKS would struggle to kill an AWACs protected by fifth gen aircraft; I suspect their fighters would struggle to make it to the FEBA. For the U.S. facing the PRC, other options need to be developed. But even then an AWACs is perfectly useful in peacetime.
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What's the particular influence of generation in defca? It isn't about fair fight.
Toolset against AWACS is extreme range AAMs and SAMs.
VKS is tied with PLAAF as world leader in those.
 
Ainen said:
What's the particular influence of generation in defca? It isn't about fair fight.
Toolset against AWACS is extreme range AAMs and SAMs.
VKS is tied with PLAAF as world leader in those.
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The Israelis have shown that western level air forces can deal with Russia's 'world class' ADS when needed.
 
Titus said:
The Israelis have shown that western level air forces can deal with Russia's 'world class' ADS when needed.
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When? And how it's related to ability to lob VLRAAM/SAMs against simple targets?

Also, i'd rather avoid this "western level airforces". Or one may question if UK, Denmark or Romania are even western countries by this criteria.
There are exactly two western nations with full SEAD/DEAD capability - that's US and indeed Israel. With ability of the latter limited to its size (i.e. even without losses Israel can maintain high intensity air operations only on american support).
 
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