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 ...

That's not a tumor on the back of the AWACS plane; it's a piece of equipment vital to U.S. defense. Here's what's happening ...

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 ...

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.

U.S. Air Force B-52 bombers and E-3 AWACS aircraft, the surveillance planes with the distinctive ... million long-term sustainment contract for the TF33 engine, with work at Tinker Air Force Base ...

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 ...

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 ...

which will act as a hub for depot support for Pratt & Whitney military engines maintained at Tinker Air Force Base and other depot locations, including those for the F-35, C-17, F-22, F-15 ...

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 ...