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.

Product development, Military Aircraft, Aerospace industry, Boeing Co., BA

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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.

Surveillance & Reconnaisance Aircraft, Reconnaissance Aircraft, United States. Department of Defense. Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Program, United States. Department of Homeland Security, Antiterrorism measures

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