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The US Air Force will fly the E-7 Wedgetail, whether it likes it or not

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has repeatedly criticized the E-7 Wedgetail AWACS plane, claiming it is “not survivable in ...
The Aviationist

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, ...
StrategyPage

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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European NATO countries scrap plan to buy Boeing E-7 Wedgetail AWACS

A Royal Australian Air Force E-7A Wedgetail aircraft is prepared for a sortie during a Red Flag-Alaska exercise at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, Aug. 9, 2019. (2nd Lt. Mark Goss/Air Force) ...
GovCon Wire

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 ...
Tulsa World

AWACS celebrates 40th anniversary at Tinker Air Force Base

OKLAHOMA CITY — At 32,000 feet in the air, the rotating radar disk on top of one of Tinker Air Force Base’s Boeing E-3 Sentry AWACS planes moans and wails. “It can be interesting hearing her sing to ...