Tag: Wedgetail

RAF Receives First Boeing E-7 Wedgetail

The first Boeing E-7 Wedgetail Airbourne Early Warning (AEW) Mk1 aircraft with Boeing P-8A Poseidon Long Range Maritime Surveillance aircraft at RAF Lossiemouth | Photo: UK Ministry of Defence/ Crown Copyright

The first Boeing E-7 Wedgetail aircraft for the Royal Air Force has arrived at RAF Lossiemouth for testing and evaluation. The aircraft, WT001, will continue trials before entering RAF service with No. 8 Squadron as an airborne early warning platform.

Boeing moves towards mother ships for UAVs

Boeing is working on a program to integrate Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) with manned aircraft, to enable the latter to control and direct them in the air and increase the scope of ISR (Intelligence Surveillance Reconnaissance) sensory inputs.
While so far, Boeing’s Apache combat helicopters have displayed the ability to control a single UAV, the company has multiplied the scope of the same system to enable larger aircraft like the family of 737 AEW&C Wedgetail and P8 to control multiple UAVs.