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Aircraft: AEW
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More eyes in skies.
In the latter half of the 20th century AEW&C aircraft proliferated from the superpowers to what might be described as the more prosperous of the front-line states. Britain, France, Israel, Nato, Japan, Sweden and Taiwan represented the only 'international' market, with the Saudi purchase widely seen as a future host-nation funding the prepositioning of essential equipment for a US expeditionary force. However, in the last decade less expensive AEW&C aircraft have become available, hence requirements have arisen throughout the Asia-Pacific region, on the Indian subcontinent and even in Latin America.
In the beginning, the driving force behind AEW&C development had been the need to protect naval forces against surprise attacks by low-flying aircraft. By 1945, a Grumman Avenger was flying with the US Navy's APS-20A radar, later versions of which equipped a variety of carrier-borne aircraft (including ...See the full content of this document
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