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 ...

There are many kinds of military airplanes in operation today, and some of the most spectacular aren’t even equipped to actively take part in battles. They are generically called airborne early ...

North Korean state media footage of the country's first Il-76 is shown in South Korea. Credit: SOPA Images/Alamy North Korea has unveiled its airborne early warning and control (AWACS) aircraft and an ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write on defense, strategy, the profession of arms, and aerospace. The Pentagon’s recent questioning of the Air Force plan to ...

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 ...