The E-7 has already entered service with the Royal Australian Air Force and the United Kingdom’s Royal Air Force announced in 2019 that it would also purchase three aircraft from Boeing. When asked whether the force was considering options besides the E-7 from other companies, Kelly said he wasn’t aware of another platform that could be fielded in the time horizons the Air Force needs. “I frankly don’t think we…have done a really good job of unambiguously articulating the no-fail mission of the air domain sensing piece that we - and not just the Air Force but the Joint Force - that our phenomenal operators and sustainers of the E-3 are working hard every day to provide,” Kelly said. However, maintenance is growing more complicated and expensive as the years pass due to a limited supply of parts. The fleet of E-3 Sentry’s currently operated by the Air Force were built during the 1970s and 1980s and can conduct airborne moving target indicator, or AMTI, missions for the force. 19, the Air Force awarded a contract to Boeing for an analysis of the E-7A’s cyber security, spectrum allocation, open mission systems and other capabilities. Kelly admitted that he wasn’t entirely sure of when E-7 Wedgetails could enter service with the Air Force, but said that he would’ve liked them in the Air Force’s inventory two years ago. “So, it’s obviously a key effort and it can’t happen fast enough.” “It’s not just interoperable with what we need to do,” he said. Maintaining the Air Force’s fleet of E-3 Sentry AWACS will only become more difficult as the aircraft age, Kelly said during a webinar hosted by the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies. ![]() Mark Kelly, commander of Air Combat Command, said the E-7 Wedgetail could be the ideal solution to what he called the “multi-spectral problem” of updating the Air Force’s current air domain surveillance capabilities. The Air Force is eyeing Boeing’s E-7 Wedgetail platform to replace its aging airborne early warning and control capabilities, a service official said Oct.
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