Australian Wedgetail comes to life at Boeing field
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The Wedgetail, a modified 737-700 airliner will serve as an Aerial Early Warning and Control (AEW & C) system for the Royal Australian Air Force and carries a Multi-Role Electronically Scanned Array radar made by Northrop Grumann. The aircraft that was designed on computer screens and modularly assembled is equipped with radar that provides a 360-degree picture and has the capacity to track more than 3,000 targets in the air and the sea out to more than 200 nautical miles.
Publication Name: Defense Week
Subject: Literature/writing
ISSN: 0273-3188
Year: 2004
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Project would open civilian skies to UAVs
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The author examines plans by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to use unmanned aerial vehicles as surveillance aircraft to patrol the skies over America.
Publication Name: Defense Week
Subject: Literature/writing
ISSN: 0273-3188
Year: 2003
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