List of airborne early warning aircraft

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This is a list of airborne early warning aircraft. An AEW aircraft is an airborne radar system generally used to detect incoming aircraft, ships, vehicles, missiles, and other projectiles and provide guidance to fighter and attack aircraft strikes.

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NATO Boeing E-3 Sentry AWACS AEW aircraft Boeing E-3 Sentry LX-N 90454-3.JPG
NATO Boeing E-3 Sentry AWACS AEW aircraft

List of AEW aircraft

TypeOriginStatusClassEntered service inQuantity OrderedNote
Antonov An-71 USSRProductionJet198532 engines
AgustaWestland Model 112/EH-101A ItalyProductionRotorcraft200943 engines
AgustaWestland Merlin Crowsnest UKProductionRotorcraft20211+ (Growing)3 engines
Avro Shackleton AEW.2UKProductionPropeller1972124 engines
Beriev A-50 USSRProductionJet197840 ~4 engines
Boeing 707 Phalcon/CondorIsraelProductionJet19932+4 engines
Boeing E-7 Wedgetail USProductionJet2004172 engines
Boeing B-29 AEW USProductionPropeller195134 engines
Boeing EC-137D USProductionJet197224 engines
Boeing E-3 Sentry USProductionJet1975684 engines
Boeing E-767 JapanProductionJet199642 engines
Boeing PB-1W Flying Fortress USProductionPropeller1945314 engines
Saab GlobalEye SwedenProductionJet20208+2 engines [1]
British Aerospace Nimrod AEW3 UKProjectJet114 engines
Britten-Norman Defender AEWUKPrototypePropeller2+2 engines
Douglas Skyraider AEW variants USProductionPropeller19474181 engine
EADS CASA C-295 AEW SpainPrototypePropeller12 engines
Embraer R-99A/E-99/EMB 145 AEW&C BrazilProductionJet199915+2 engines
Fairey Gannet AEW.3 UKProductionPropeller1958441 double engine
Fairey Gannet AEW.7 UKProjectPropeller01 engine
Goodyear ZP2N-1W/ZPG-2W/EZ-1B USProductionAerostat195532 engines
Goodyear ZPG-3W USProductionAerostat195842 engines
Grumman E-1 Tracer USProductionPropeller1956882 engines
Grumman E-2 Hawkeye USProductionPropeller19602762 engines
Grumman TBM-3W Avenger USProductionPropeller1944401 engine
Gulfstream G550/IAI Eitam Israel/USProductionJet200682 engines
Hawker Siddeley P.139B UKProjectJet02 engines
Kamov Ka-31 USSRProductionRotorcraft198335+2 engines
KJ-1 AEWC ChinaPrototypePropeller24 engines
KJ-200 'Y-8W Balanced Beam' ChinaProductionPropeller2001134 engines
KJ-2000 ChinaProductionJet200354 engines
KJ-3000 ChinaPrototypeJet44 engines
Lockheed AMSS (S-3 derivative)USProjectJet02 engines
Netra Mk.1 on ERJ-145 by DRDOIndiaProductionJet201132 engines
Netra Mk.2 on A321 by DRDOIndiaIn developmentJet ?62 engines
Lockheed WV-2/PO-2W/EC-121 Warning Star USProductionPropeller19492324 engines
Lockheed EC-130V Hercules USProductionPropeller199114 engines
Lockheed P-3 Orion AEW&CUSProductionPropeller198884 engines
Saab 340 AEW&C (S 100 B/D Argus)SwedenProductionPropeller199782 engines
Saab 2000 AEW&CSwedenProductionPropeller200852 engines
Shaanxi KJ-500 ChinaProductionPropeller201312+4 engines
Shaanxi Y-8W ChinaProductionPropeller ?44 engines
Shaanxi Y-8J AEW ChinaPrototypePropeller44 engines
Shaanxi Y-8 AWACS ChinaProductionPropeller ?44 engines
Shaanxi ZDK-03 AEW&C ChinaProductionPropeller201044 engines
Sikorsky SH-3H AEW SpainProductionRotorcraft ?32 engines
Sikorsky HR2S-1W USProductionRotorcraft195822 engines
Tupolev Tu-126 USSRProductionPropeller196212 ~4 engines
Vickers Wellington Ic "Air Controlled Interception"UKProductionPropeller194412 engines [2]
Westland Sea King AEW.2/AEW.5/ASaC7 UKProductionRotorcraft1982132 engines
Xian JZY-01 ChinaPrototypePropeller12 engines
Xian KJ-600 ChinaIn developmentPropeller ? ?2 engines
Yakovlev Yak-44 RussiaProjectPropeller02 engines

See also

References

Citations

  1. ↑ "Successful First Flight for GlobalEye" (Press release). SAAB.
  2. ↑ April 1987 Flypast Magazine article 'The First AWACS'

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