The Royal Air Force’s cutting-edge Wedgetail E7 AEW Mk1 aircraft has hit an important milestone, taking its maiden test flight from Birmingham Airport.
The Wedgetail, which has not even been fully painted yet, will operate from RAF Lossiemouth.
The airborne early warning and control (AEW&C) aircraft will provide eyes in the sky for at least the next 20 years.
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Fixed with what technicians?
Nice to see the uk are uaing Boeing you know the company that lets there planes crash then the people responsible walk free because there rich all part of thay big club
This is RAF's replacement for E-3 but what is Europes replacement? Should we expect a A320 AWACs or a A330 AWACs with tanker capability
🪽 Chocks Away Chaps!
Britain is severely lacking in AEW capabilities ever since leaving EU
It wings jiggles
Insane that the original order was for five Wedgetails, but they only ended up ordering three, for the cost of the original five. Now, if one is deployed, or goes down for maintenance or worse, there won't be enough to patrol UK skies.
😮 cool
Good to see!
Be spying on Russia asap
That's crazy the UK can only get 3 of tjem
I have never seen planes cut-up so quickly as when they scrapped the Nimrods.
Looks like a cut and shut 🤔
Three, three poxy aircraft. When is the UK going to get serious about defence?
It's crazy. RAF once seeh as one of the best now has a worse air force than indias 😂
Insane that UK bought five sets of RADAR but only 3 aircraft to put them in. Fortunately 737 is cheap
RC135W Rivet Joint ISTAR Airseeker has only three aircraft so are also not enough.
The first responsibility of the nation state is for Defence so shame on all politicians who have neglected this.
Nice to see the UK using something Aussie. It was usually the other way around. I'm glad it's a two-way street.
I find it hilarious that in development America decided their battle management control plane was better (even though it performed worse on all tests) and now all most of the western world wants these Australian planes including America.
RAAF has had these for over 10 years. Glad RAF is catching up
How drunk was the designer of this aircraft…..better procurement standards.
Very neat aircraft, I’d love to see what it can see, and I love watching them and also the Hawks and F35 flying out of Williamtown, my wife doesn’t though😂🇦🇺
It’s ok, my heating allowance went into buying this.
🇮🇩🇮🇩🇮🇩🇮🇩💪👍
Looks like we have a lot of work to do on the certification and release to service. This is just the first flight. Still much to do in releasing it to service.
😂😂😂😂😂
3 of these lol The RAF should have at least 9 same amount as the P8 Poseidons
We need this