airborne early warning

  1. Mike Pryce

    BAe Nimrod AEW.3

    The preferred UK AEW for the RAF was always the Nimrod as it was big and in production. In 1966 studies looked at various radar options, but lack of money delayed it. All of the above comes from 'Airborne Early Warning, design, development and operations' by Mike Hirst, Osprey, 1983.
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    • 1960s 1970s 1980s air defence airborne early warning british aerospace plc cold war gec-marconi gec-marconi electronics ltd great britain hawker siddeley aviation ltd north atlantic treaty organisation raf fighter command raf strike command royal air force uk air defence region
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    • Forum: Aviation & Space
  2. boxkite

    SOR 206 : E-3 AWACS competitors

    Hi, it's my first day at the forum. So I want to ask for a very ordinary subject. Besides the later winner of the AWACS competition, the Boeing EC-137D (early_awacs_2.jpg shows an early configuration with radome mounted on the tip of the tail), there was another competitor, a DC-8 development...
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    • adcom aerospace defense command airborne early warning awacs cold war early 1970s late 1960s north atlantic treaty organisation united states united states air force
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    • Forum: Secret Postwar Aircraft Projects
  3. flateric

    OKB Korchagin Typhoon multirole carrier-based aircraft

    From Krylya Rodiny 6-2004. No timeframe of project was described.
    • flateric
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    • 1970s 1980s airborne early warning anti-submarine warfare anti-surface warfare asuw asw cold war electronic warfare red fleet soviet navy soviet union tanker aircraft ussr
    • Replies: 34
    • Forum: Secret Postwar Aircraft Projects
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