U.S. Air Force Will Buy Boeing’s Wedgetail

Brian Everstine April 28, 2022
Royal Australian Air Force E-7 Wedgetail
The U.S. Air Force plans to buy the E-7 Wedgetail, first developed for Australia, to replace aging E-3 Sentry airborne early warning and control aircraft.
Credit: Boeing
U.S. Air Force leaders, including commanders of the service’s Air Combat Command and Pacific Air Forces, have long called for adopting the Australian-designed Boeing E-7A Wedgetail aircraft to meet an air-moving-target-indication mission that the E-3 is struggling to serve. So the announcement of...
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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