Air Force officials say the E-7 must replace its aging E-3 AWACS planes and would be needed even when space-based ISR ...

Since 2023, the Air Force sent 14 AWACS to the Boneyard, taking them out of operational rotation, possibly forever. Another was left at Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma, the main hub for the ...

The Wedgetail will replace NATO's fleet of 14 E-3 AWACS (Airborne Early Warning and ... the airframe 75-0560 assigned to the 552nd Air Control Wing at Tinker AFB in Oklahoma – the same base ...

The AWACS is also used by Saudi Arabia (5); France ... An E-3 Sentry aircraft, tail 75-0560, pauses in front of Base Operations at Tinker AFB, Oklahoma, on Apr. 6, 2023, prior to departing ...

The Air Force Sustainment Center at Tinker AFB, Okla., is examining reduction of AWACS support costs through the Diminishing Manufacturing Sources Replacement of Avionics for Global Operations and ...

With potential layoffs coming to Tinker Air Force Base, the OKC and Midwest City communities are concerned about the loss of so many jobs. Tinker Air Force Base is the largest single-site employer ...

learning a new skill that would take him across the world working on the Airborne Warning and Control System known as AWACS. His job while stationed at Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma City ...

WASHINGTON — Sen. Jim Inhofe protected Tinker Air Force Base’s entire fleet of AWACS planes as part of a final deal hashed out Tuesday by leaders of congressional defense committees.

TINKER AIR FORCE BASE, Okla. (KFOR) – On a morning fit for a funeral, light rain and gray skies, a few of the remaining Airborne Warning and Control System (or AWACS) E-3s were standing ready ...

OKLAHOMA CITY — At 32,000 feet in the air, the rotating radar disk on top of one of Tinker Air Force Base’s Boeing E-3 Sentry AWACS planes moans and wails. “It can be interesting hearing her ...

IT’S THE FIRST AWACS JET TO BE RETIRED FROM SERVICE AT TINKER AIR FORCE BASE, AND IT WON’T BE THE LAST. OUR EVAN ONSTOT IS HERE IN STUDIO NOW. EVAN THEY’RE MAKING WAY FOR A NEW GENERATION OF AIRCRAFT.

Tinker Air Force base entered a new era on Thursday. The base's AWACS planes, which are the planes with the radar domes on top, were retired and replaced with a more modern version of the plane.