NATO will update its aging airborne warning and control system (AWACS) fleet with the purchase of six Boeing E-7A Wedgetail aircraft, it announced Wednesday. [Courtesy: NATO] NATO announced the ...

Introduced in 1977, the Boeing E-3 Sentry AWACS airplanes are getting ready for retirement. The U.S. Air Force plans to replace them with a new AEW&C airplane, the E-7A Wedgetail. USAF just awarded ...

The U.S. Air Force is looking into a buy of spare parts for the service’s Diminishing Manufacturing Sources Replacement of Avionics for Global Operations and Navigation (DRAGON) program for Boeing E-3 ...

NATO allies have approved a decision to modernize the alliance’s airborne early warning (AEW) capability using Boeing’s E-7 Wedgetail platform. Following in the footsteps of the UK and U.S., six E-7s ...

In this video, I break down why Saab’s and General Atomics' new airborne radar-equipped Reaper drone is such a combat ...

Work is nearing completion on an upgrade to the Royal Saudi Air Force (RSAF) fleet of Boeing E-3 Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) aircraft. Work is nearing completion on an upgrade to the ...

The E-3 Sentry is afflicted by acute parts and maintenance issues as the Boeing 707 aircraft it is based on ceased production 30 years ago. Nearly three months after the fuselage of the U.S. Air Force ...

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 ...

The U.S. Air Force has indicated its intent to award Boeing (NYSE: BA) a sole-source contract to study and analyze the E-7A Wedgetail aircraft configuration as the branch looks to replace its current ...

Boeing (NYSE: BA) might end up selling its defense unit -- but it's not out of the defense business yet. In a huge announcement that might give a clue to the company's future, the U.S. Air Force (USAF ...