Growing E-7A Demand Prompts Production Increase

Brian Everstine February 07, 2024
Boeing E-7

The U.S. requested an Australian E-7A to participate in a major exercise out of Hawaii in July 2023.

Credit: Brian Everstine/AW&ST
In October 2023, the U.S. made a request to the Royal Australian Air Force. There was an ongoing need for airborne early warning systems in Eastern Europe amid the war in Ukraine, and the beleaguered, retiring U.S. Air Force Boeing E-3 Sentry fleet could not meet that demand. So Washington asked...
Brian Everstine

Brian Everstine is the Pentagon Editor for Aviation Week, based in Washington, D.C. Before joining Aviation Week in August 2021, he covered the Pentagon for Air Force Magazine. Brian began covering defense aviation in 2011 as a reporter for Military Times.

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