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English: A Royal Air Force E3D Sentry takes off from RAF Waddington.

The RAF operates seven E-3D Sentry aircraft in the airborne surveillance and command-and-control role. The aircraft are based at RAF Waddington, where they are operated by Nos 8 and 23 Squadrons as the UK’s contribution to the NATO Airborne Early Warning and Control Force.

The E-3D also forms one arm of the UK Intelligence, Surveillance, Target Acquisition and Reconnaissance (ISTAR) triad of Sentinel R1, E-3D and Nimrod R1 aircraft. Whilst primarily procured as an airborne early warning aircraft, the E- 3D has been extensively employed in the Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) role. 

The E-3D Sentry, known to the RAF as the AEW1, is based on the commercial Boeing 707-320B aircraft, which has been extensively modified and updated to accommodate modern mission systems. Mission endurance is approximately 11 hours (over 5000nmls), although this can be extended by air-to-air refuelling.

The E-3D is the only aircraft in the RAF’s inventory capable of air-to-air refuelling by both the American ‘flying-boom’ system and the RAF’s ‘probe-and-drogue’ method.

  • Organization: RAF
  • Object Name: WAD-09-782-OUT-UNC-005
  • Category: RAF
  • Supplemental Categories: Aircraft, Surveillance
  • Keywords: E3D, Sentry, Royal Air Force, RAF, Equipment, Aircraft, Surveillance, E3-D, AWACS, Radar, AEW, Air Early Warning, ISTAR
  • Country: Canada
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