Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has repeatedly criticized the E-7 Wedgetail AWACS plane, claiming it is “not survivable in ...

A Royal Australian Air Force E-7A Wedgetail aircraft is prepared for a sortie during a Red Flag-Alaska exercise at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, Aug. 9, 2019. (2nd Lt. Mark Goss/Air Force) ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Business Insider got access to a NATO AWACS flight for an eight-hour surveillance mission. The mission provided aerial support for ...

October 16, 2025: Last year Russia lost the last of its A-50 AWACS/Airborne Warning and Control System aircraft. It took nearly a year before anyone could confirm that Russia had lost its last AWACS ...

November 5, 2025: The United States retired the last of its E-3 AWACS/Airborne Warning and Control System in 2023. The Air Force initially wanted to replace the four-engine E-3 AWACS with the ...

Iran's sole Simorgh AWACS aircraft was lost during a military parade on September 22, one of two Iranian military aircraft that crashed in Tehran while participating in a display to mark the ...

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 ...