E-7 Wedgetail
The E-7 Wedgetail is Australia's and the US's next-generation AEW&C aircraft, built on a Boeing 737-700 airframe and equipped with a fixed MESA AESA radar — the chosen successor to the E-3 Sentry across NATO and a growing allied fleet.
Australia and US-led AEW&C aircraft built on a Boeing 737-700, equipped with a fixed MESA AESA radar — the successor to the E-3 Sentry across NATO and a growing allied fleet.
Overview
The Boeing E-7A Wedgetail is a 737-700-based airborne early warning and control (AEW&C) platform fielded first by the Royal Australian Air Force and subsequently adopted by South Korea, Turkey, the United Kingdom, the United States, and NATO as the definitive replacement for the ageing E-3 Sentry AWACS fleet. At its centre is the Northrop Grumman Multi-role Electronically Scanned Array (MESA) radar, a fixed dorsal “top-hat” array that provides simultaneous 360° air and maritime surveillance without the mechanical rotodome of its predecessors.
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