Boeing e7 wedgetail airborne early warning and control. Four peace eye aircraft converted boeing 737sprovide the country with its first airborne early warning aircraft capability. Military to deploy early warning aircraft the chosun. Three of four 737 aewc surveillance aircraft, called peace eye, were delivered to south korea by may 2012. We expect to deploy it as early as late june, but this may be delayed slightly. This twinturboprop aircraft was designed and developed during the late 1950s and early 1960s by the grumman aircraft company for the united states navy as a replacement for the earlier, pistonengined e1 tracer, which was rapidly becoming obsolete. The gods eye view of the battlespace that the raf got from radar enabled. The aircraft, based on a nextgeneration 737700 commercial airplane, incorporates electronically scanned radar and 10 mission crew consoles that can track airborne and maritime targets simultaneously. The first peace eye aircraft was delivered to gimhae air base, busan for acceptance. The northrop grumman e2 hawkeye is an american allweather, carriercapable tactical airborne early warning aew aircraft. The fourth and last aircraft was delivered in october 2012. The e3 airborne early warning and control system awacs was first carried aboard militarized 707 commercial aircraft with a rotating radome mounted above the fuselage carrying the airplanes avionics and radar. Rokaf base gimhae, south korea, may 21, 2012 boeing nyse. The lockheed ec121 warning star was an american airborne early warning and control radar surveillance aircraft operational in the 1950s in both the united states navy usn and united states air force usaf.
The e3 airborne early warning and control system awacs was first carried aboard militarized 707 commercial aircraft with a rotating radome mounted above. Airborne early warning aircraft are one of the most affordable ways of. Boeing unveiled the new planes, dubbed peace eye, and said the first plane will be delivered to south korea in june, a. It is lighter than the 707based boeing e3 sentry, and has a fixed, active electronically scanned array radar antenna instead of a rotating one. The aircraft selected for the wedgetail is the boeing 737700 increased gross weight variant igw, based on the airframe of the boeing business jet. South koreas airborne early warning and control system aircraft, called peace eye, takes off to monitor north koreas military movements at an air base in. Looks like south korean af e737 peace eye airborne early. The type will be used to succeed and aging line of boeing e3d sentry platforms based on the boeing model 707 jet airliner. It was designed for the royal australian air force under project wedgetail and designated e7a wedgetail. The first three of four peace eye airborne early warning and control aircraft were delivered to the turkish air force in 2014. Peace eye is equipped with the northrop grumman mechanically. Boeings early warning and control aircraft peace eye.