AWACS e AEW

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https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/chinas-massive-fleet-of-radar-planes-and-the-strategy-behind-it

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L'USAF ha iniziato a ritirare gli E-3 AWACS ...

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The aging E-3 AWACS fleet got a little smaller last week, as the first of 13 E-3s tp be retired this year took off from Tinker Air Force Base, Okla., for the last time. 
E-3 Tail Number 0560 departed for the Boneyard at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Ariz., on April 6, a week after the 552nd Air Control Wing hosted a retirement celebration with retired and Active-Duty Airmen getting a chance to sign their names to the airframe, an Air Force tradition. 
“It’s sad. It means a new way is coming, but it’s still sad because we have a lot of great memories,” a former Airman told local television station KOLO. 
“We had a great mission back 20, 25 years ago.” 
With the retirement, the Air Force’s AWACS fleet shrunk to 30 aircraft, on its way to under 18. 
Based on the commercially defunct 707 airframe, E-3s are expensive to maintain, their mission-capable rates plunging below 65 percent in recent years.

 ... airandspaceforces.com ... https://www.airandspaceforces.com/first-of-13-awacs-tinker-retired/ ...

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Nuovo AWACS per la NATO :

https://theaviationist.com/2023/11/15/nato-selects-e-7/