airborne early-warning station
airborne early-warning station
[′er‚bȯrn ′ər·lē ′wȯrn·iŋ ‚stā·shən] (ordnance)
An airborne radar station for detecting aircraft, which are incapable of being detected by a ground radar station because of line-of-sight propagation limitations.
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