As aging Air Force AWACS heads to Middle East, where is its replacement?

The vital but rapidly aging Air Force E-3 Sentry is back in the Middle East while a replacement could still be years away.

Major Deployment Of Rickety E-3 Sentry Fleet For Iran Crisis Highlights Worrisome Gaps

The shrunken E-3 fleet isn't getting any younger, and a replacement is still far off while demand for its services would be far greater in the Pacific.
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Turkey betrays Iran? US deploys AWACS in Erdogan’s air base to monitor Iranian army | US vs Iran

The United States has reportedly begun using Turkish airspace to monitor Iranian military activity, signaling a possible ...
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Saab just turned the MQ-9 Reaper into an AWACS drone, and it might be the fix for NATO’s E-3 and E-7 crisis

Saab and General Atomics have unveiled an MQ-9B Reaper configured for airborne early warning, offering persistent radar ...
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Trio of AWACS planes sent to Baltic region to give NATO more eyes in the sky

NATO is sending long-range surveillance aircraft to Lithuania for a mission across the Baltics, the alliance said in a recent statement. The first of three E-3A AWACS planes is currently operating out ...