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 Country Class Date Status No. Notes
Antonov An-71 USSR Jet 1985 Production 3 3 engines
AgustaWestland Model 112/EH-101A Italy Rotorcraft 2009 Production 4 3 engines
AgustaWestland Merlin Crowsnest UK Rotorcraft 2021 Production 1+ (Growing)
Avro Shackleton AEW.2 UK Propeller 1972 Production 12 4 engines
Beriev A-50 USSR Jet 1978 Production 40 ~ 4 engines
Boeing 707 Phalcon/Condor Israel Jet 1993 Production 2+ 4 engines
Boeing 737 AEW&C US Jet 2004 Production 14 2 engines
Boeing B-29 AEW US Propeller 1951 Production 3 4 engines
Boeing EC-137D US Jet 1972 Production 2 4 engines
Boeing E-3 Sentry US Jet 1975 Production 68 4 engines
Boeing E-767 JPN Jet 1996 Production 4 2 engines
Boeing PB-1W Flying Fortress US Propeller 1945 Production 31 4 engines
Bombardier Global 6000 Sweden Jet 2018 ordered 1+ ~ 2 engines[1]
British Aerospace Nimrod AEW3 UK Jet 1980 Project 11 4 engines
Britten-Norman Defender AEW UK Propeller 1988 Prototype 2+ 2 engines
Douglas Skyraider AEW variants US Propeller 1947 Production 418 1 engine
DRDO AEW&CS India Jet 2011 Production 3 2 engines
EADS CASA C-295 AEW Spain Propeller 2011 Prototype 1 2 engines
Embraer R-99A/E-99/EMB 145 AEW&C Brazil Jet 1999 Production 15+ 2 engines
Fairey Gannet AEW.3 UK Propeller 1958 Production 44 1 double engine
Fairey Gannet AEW.7 UK Propeller n/a Project 0 1 engine
Goodyear ZP2N-1W/ZPG-2W/EZ-1B US Aerostat 1955 Production 3
Goodyear ZPG-3W US Aerostat 1958 Production 4
Grumman E-1 Tracer US Propeller 1956 Production 88 2 engines
Grumman E-2 Hawkeye US Propeller 1960 Production 276 2 engines
Grumman TBM-3W Avenger US Propeller 1944 Production 40 1 engine
Gulfstream G550/IAI Eitam Israel/US Jet 2006 Production 8 2 engines
Hawker Siddeley P.139B UK Jet 1966 Project 0 2 engines
Kamov Ka-31 USSR Rotorcraft 1983 Production 35+
KJ-1 AEWC China Propeller 1971 Prototype 2 4 engines
KJ-200 'Y-8W Balanced Beam' China Propeller 2001 Production 13 4 engines
KJ-2000 China Jet 2003 Production 5 4 engines
KJ-3000 China Jet 2013 Prototype 4 4 engines
Lockheed AMSS (S-3 derivative) US Jet n/a Project 0 2 engines
Lockheed WV-2/PO-2W/EC-121 Warning Star US Propeller 1949 Production 232 4 engines
Lockheed EC-130V Hercules US Propeller 1991 1 4 engines
Lockheed P-3 Orion AEW&C US Propeller 1988 Production 8 4 engines
Saab 340 AEW&C (S 100 B/D Argus) Sweden Propeller 1994 Production 8 2 engines
Saab 2000 AEW&C Sweden Propeller 2008 Production 5 2 engines
Shaanxi KJ-500 China Propeller 2013 Production 12+ 4 engines
Shaanxi Y-8W China Propeller Production 4 4 engines
Shaanxi Y-8J AEW China Propeller 1998 Prototype 4 4 engines
Shaanxi Y-8 AWACS China Propeller Production 4 4 engines
Shaanxi ZDK-03 AEW&C China Propeller 2010 Production 4 4 engines
Sikorsky SH-3H AEW Spain Rotorcraft Production 3
Sikorsky HR2S-1W US Rotorcraft 1958 Production 2
Tupolev Tu-126 USSR Propeller 1962 Production 12 ~ 4 engines
Vickers Wellington Ic "Air Controlled Interception" UK Propeller 1944 Production 1 2 engines[2]
Westland Sea King AEW.2/AEW.5/ASaC7 UK Rotorcraft 1982 Production 13
Xian JZY-01 China Propeller 2012 Prototype 1 2 engines
Xian KJ-600 China Propeller In development 2 engines
Yakovlev Yak-44 Russia Propeller 1993 Project 0 2 engines

See also[]

References[]

Citations[]

  1. ^ "Successful First Flight for GlobalEye" (Press release). SAAB. 14 March 2018.
  2. ^ April 1987 Flypast Magazine article 'The First AWACS'

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