| The AWACS Link |
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| General Info, Primary Function - Airborne Surveillance, Command, Control and Communication. Builder - Boeing Aerospace Co. Power Plant - 4 Pratt and Whitney TF33-PW-100A Turbo Fan engines. Thrust - 21,000 Lbs ( Each Engines ) Length - 44 meters ( 145 feet, 6 inches ) Wingspan -39.7 meters ( 130 feet, 10 Inches) Height - 12.5 meters ( 41 feet, 4 inches ) Rotodome - 30 Feet in Diameter ( 9.1 Meters), 6 Feet thick ( 1.8 Meters ), Mounted 11 feet ( 3.33 Meters) above fulesage. Speed - 0.48 Mach ( Much slower than a normal boeing 737 ( 0.78 Mach ) Ceiling - Above 29,000 Feet ( 8,778 Meters ) Maximum Take of weight - 347,000 Pounds Endurace - More than 8 hours ( unrefueled ) Unit Cost - A lot !! Approx. 300 Million U.S dollars. Crew - Flight Crew Of four plus mission crew of 13-19 speicalists ( Crew depending on mission ) Date deployed - March 1977 |
| Above and below we talk about the E.3 Sentry AWACS link. |
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| The AWACS link or as we know it the Airborne Warning and Control Systems. |
| The types of AWACS there are- 1.767 AWACS 2.USAF E.3's 3.Republic of France E-3 AWACS 4.U.K- E-3's 5. Saudi E-3's |