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.

NATO Boeing E-3 Sentry AWACS AEW aircraft

List of AEW aircraft

Type Origin Status Class Entered service in Quantity Ordered Note
Antonov An-71USSRProductionJet198532 engines
AgustaWestland Model 112/EH-101AItalyProductionRotorcraft200943 engines
AgustaWestland Merlin CrowsnestUKProductionRotorcraft20211+ (Growing)3 engines
Avro Shackleton AEW.2UKProductionPropeller1972124 engines
Beriev A-50USSRProductionJet197840 ~4 engines
Boeing 707 Phalcon/CondorIsraelProductionJet19932+4 engines
Boeing E-7 WedgetailUSProductionJet2004172 engines
Boeing B-29 AEWUSProductionPropeller195134 engines
Boeing EC-137DUSProductionJet197224 engines
Boeing E-3 SentryUSProductionJet1975684 engines
Boeing E-767JapanProductionJet199642 engines
Boeing PB-1W Flying FortressUSProductionPropeller1945314 engines
British Aerospace Nimrod AEW3UKProjectJet114 engines
Britten-Norman Defender AEWUKPrototypePropeller2+2 engines
Douglas Skyraider AEW variantsUSProductionPropeller19474181 engine
EADS CASA C-295 AEWSpainPrototypePropeller12 engines
Embraer R-99A/E-99/EMB 145 AEW&CBrazilProductionJet199915+2 engines
Fairey Gannet AEW.3UKProductionPropeller1958441 double engine
Fairey Gannet AEW.7UKProjectPropeller01 engine
Goodyear ZP2N-1W/ZPG-2W/EZ-1BUSProductionAerostat195532 engines
Goodyear ZPG-3WUSProductionAerostat195842 engines
Grumman E-1 TracerUSProductionPropeller1956882 engines
Grumman E-2 HawkeyeUSProductionPropeller19602762 engines
Grumman TBM-3W AvengerUSProductionPropeller1944401 engine
Gulfstream G550/IAI EitamIsrael/USProductionJet200682 engines
Hawker Siddeley P.139BUKProjectJet02 engines
Kamov Ka-31USSRProductionRotorcraft198335+2 engines
KJ-1 AEWCChinaPrototypePropeller24 engines
KJ-200 'Y-8W Balanced Beam'ChinaProductionPropeller2001134 engines
KJ-2000ChinaProductionJet200354 engines
KJ-3000ChinaPrototypeJet44 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 StarUSProductionPropeller19492324 engines
Lockheed EC-130V HerculesUSProductionPropeller199114 engines
Lockheed P-3 Orion AEW&CUSProductionPropeller198884 engines
Saab 340 AEW&C (S 100 B/D Argus)SwedenProductionPropeller199782 engines
Saab 2000 AEW&CSwedenProductionPropeller200852 engines
Saab GlobalEyeSwedenProductionJet20208+2 engines[1]
Shaanxi KJ-500ChinaProductionPropeller201312+4 engines
Shaanxi Y-8WChinaProductionPropeller?44 engines
Shaanxi Y-8J AEWChinaPrototypePropeller44 engines
Shaanxi Y-8 AWACSChinaProductionPropeller?44 engines
Shaanxi ZDK-03 AEW&CChinaProductionPropeller201044 engines
Sikorsky SH-3H AEWSpainProductionRotorcraft?32 engines
Sikorsky HR2S-1WUSProductionRotorcraft195822 engines
Tupolev Tu-126USSRProductionPropeller196212 ~4 engines
Vickers Wellington Ic "Air Controlled Interception"UKProductionPropeller194412 engines[2]
Westland Sea King AEW.2/AEW.5/ASaC7UKProductionRotorcraft1982132 engines
Xian JZY-01ChinaPrototypePropeller12 engines
Xian KJ-600ChinaIn developmentPropeller2025?2 engines
Yakovlev Yak-44RussiaProjectPropeller02 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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