The vital but rapidly aging Air Force E-3 Sentry is back in the Middle East while a replacement could still be years away. By David Roza Published Feb 20, 2026 2:05 PM EST When Air Force E-3 Sentry ...

A NATO E-3A Sentry AWACS flew its first mission in Finnish airspace alongside the Finnish Air Force, marking a new step in ...

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 ...

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has repeatedly criticized the E-7 Wedgetail AWACS plane, claiming it is “not survivable in the modern battlefield.” Congress feels otherwise. US lawmakers have ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Air Force's fleet of airborne warning aircraft is past its expiration date, but a replacement may be far off. When Air Force E ...