MIDWEST CITY – Tinker Air Force Base will hold public tours of the AWACS (Airborne Warning and Control System) during its weekend air show. The Star Spangled Salute air show is scheduled to be ...

A leaked audio recording of a group commander at Tinker Air Force Base ... Boeing E-3 Sentry Airborne Warning and Control System, or AWACS, aircraft. According to the account, AWACS crews last ...

and with the AWACS’ services still in high demand, the E-3 will need to be kept “alive” for the foreseeable future—a task that is ongoing at Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

With the Air Force moving to retire its remaining E-3 airborne warning and control system, or AWACS, aircraft and replace ... Work will take place at Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma and other ...

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.

provide a 4.6% pay raise for service members and protect much of the AWACS fleet at Tinker Air Force Base until a replacement plane is deployed. The bill, named for retiring U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe ...

BRUSSELS, Nov 15 (Reuters) - NATO will replace its ageing fleet of AWACS surveillance planes, in service since the Cold War in the 1980s, with a militarised version of the Boeing 737 commercial ...

Sometimes, the military comes up with some truly insane ideas -- that work. What if you stuck an airport on a boat? Now, aircraft carriers rule the seas. Okay, what if you stuck a radar station on ...