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USAF: 17 E-8C Joint STAR are combat ready

Washington, USA - The surveillance, command and control airplanes devoted to surface monitoring to remain in service up to beyond 2025

There are some 17 E-8C Joint STAR (Surveillance Target Attack Radar System) surveillance, command and control airplanes now in service in US Air Force. Northrop Grumman, which is attending to the production of some among the most important avionics systems of these "terrestrial AWACS" whose basic platform consists of the Boeing 707, delivered the last of the aircraft destined to operate in USAF up...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 117162
Rome, Italy, 03/25/2005 15:53
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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