airborne early warning and control
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airborne early warning and control
[′er‚bȯrn ′ər·lē ′wȯrn·iŋ an kən′trōl] (ordnance)
Air surveillance and control provided by airborne early-warning vehicles which are equipped with search and height-finding radar and communications equipment for controlling weapons.
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airborne early warning and control (AEW&C)
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Under a contract valued at approximately $138 million, Northrop Grumman's Integrated Systems and Aerostructures sector (Bethpage, NY) will upgrade the Egyptian Air Force's five E-2C Hawkeye
airborne early warning and control aircraft.
In 2006, the Royal Australian Air Force is to receive the first two of four
airborne early warning and control aircraft based on the Boeing 737-700.
Following on from the Greek Government's announcement that it had selected an
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