File:Royal Air Force E3D Sentry AWACS Reconnaisance Aircraft MOD 45151921.jpg
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DescriptionRoyal Air Force E3D Sentry AWACS Reconnaisance Aircraft MOD 45151921.jpg |
English: A Royal Air Force E3D Sentry is pictured on a sortie 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.
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Author | SAC Andy Holmes |
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Camera manufacturer | NIKON CORPORATION |
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Camera model | NIKON D1X |
Author | Sgt Jack Pritchard, DCC(RAF) |
Exposure time | 1/750 sec (0.0013333333333333) |
F-number | f/5.6 |
Date and time of data generation | 15:30, 24 September 2002 |
Lens focal length | 70 mm |
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Headline | Royal Air Force E3D Sentry AWACS Reconnaisance Aircraft |
Source | RAF |
Credit/Provider | Crown Copyright |
Orientation | Normal |
Horizontal resolution | 300 dpi |
Vertical resolution | 300 dpi |
Software used | Adobe Photoshop CS2 Windows |
File change date and time | 09:45, 22 September 2010 |
Y and C positioning | Co-sited |
Exposure Program | Aperture priority |
Exif version | 2.1 |
Date and time of digitizing | 15:30, 24 September 2002 |
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APEX exposure bias | 0 |
Maximum land aperture | 3 APEX (f/2.83) |
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Color space | 2 |
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Image width | 4,961 px |
Image height | 3,508 px |
Date metadata was last modified | 13:56, 26 November 2010 |
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Category | RAF |
Original transmission location code | WAD-09-782-OUT-UNC-005 |
Writer | SAC Ben Stevenson |
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Country shown | UK |
Sublocation of city shown | RAF Akrotiri |
IIM version | 2 |
Fixture name | Free |