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E-3 Sentry AWACS Planes at Tinker AFB

Location: Oklahoma, United States
Latitude & Longitude: 35.424641, -97.390396
Views: 1821   Posted By: bmeyer2 (09/29/2008)
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bmeyer2 (09/29/2008)

These are 8 E-3 Sentry Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) planes at the Tinker Air Force Base.  The E-3 is a modified Boeing 707 carrying a rotating radar dome.  Its purpose is weather and command-and-control support.

See Wikipedia's E-3 and AWACS entries for more info:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-3_Sentry
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AWACS

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