SPOTREP

E-3 Sentry (AWACS)

Transport or support aircraft, USA. In service since 1977

Unidentified target
Photo: Htm, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0

How to recognise it

Four-engine Boeing 707 with a huge rotating radar dish on two struts above the rear fuselage.

Also known as

E-3, AWACS, Sentry

Used by

USA, NATO, France, Saudi Arabia

Other transport & support

Sources

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