Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has repeatedly criticized the E-7 Wedgetail AWACS plane, claiming it is “not survivable in the modern battlefield.” Congress feels otherwise.

November 5, 2025: The United States retired the last of its E-3 AWACS/Airborne Warning and Control System in 2023. The Air Force initially wanted to replace the four-engine E-3 AWACS with 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 sing to ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write on defense, strategy, the profession of arms, and aerospace. The Pentagon’s recent questioning of the Air Force plan to ...

Raytheon Technologies‘ (NYSE: RTX) Collins Aerospace business has secured a potential 10-year, $99.6 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to perform sustaining engineering work on avionics of the ...

The USAF has decided to buy up to 26 E-7As from Boeing, similar to this E-7 Wedgetail from the Royal Australian Air Force, to replace its fleet of aging E-3 Sentry aircraft. (Boeing Australia) Defense ...

The Boeing E-7 Wedgetail for the U.S. Air Force receives a $900 million boost to $1.1 billion in the fiscal 2026 defense appropriations conference bill ...

After selecting the Boeing 737-based E-7 Wedgetail in 2023 to replace the E-3 Sentry, the group of nations leading the procurement of NATO’s next airborne early warning aircraft have now reversed ...

Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems will perform a range of engineering services for several U.S. Air Force programs, including the B-2 Spirit stealth bomber, Sentinel missile platform, and Airborne ...