This list covers both currently and formerly operated electromagnetic warfare aircraft (typically airborne early warning and control aircraft) used by the United States
Name | Role | Manufacturer | Notes | Year of
first flight |
Introduction | Number built | Image |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Lockheed EC-121 Warning Star | Airborne early warning and control | Lockheed Corporation | Developed from the Lockheed C-121 Constellation | 1949 | 1954 | 232 | |
Grumman E-1 Tracer | Carried-based airborne early warning | Grumman | Developed from the Grumman C-1 Trader. | 1956 | 1958 | 88 | |
Northrop Grumman E-2 Hawkeye | Carried-based airborne early warning | Northrop Grumman | Highly used by the United States Navy; developed into the Grumman C-2 Greyhound | 1960 | 1964 | 313 (total); 88 (E-2D) [1] |
Name | Role | Manufacturer | Notes | Year of
first flight |
Introduction | Number built | Image |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Boeing E-3 Sentry | Airborne early warning and control | Boeing Defense, Space & Security | Developed from the Boeing 707 | EC-137D: 9 February 1972
E-3: 25 May 1976 [2] |
1977 | 68 | |
Boeing E-4 | Airborne early warning and control | Boeing | Developed from the Boeing 747-200 | 1973 | 1974 | 4 |
This list covers both currently and formerly operated electromagnetic warfare aircraft (typically airborne early warning and control aircraft) used by the United States
Name | Role | Manufacturer | Notes | Year of
first flight |
Introduction | Number built | Image |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Lockheed EC-121 Warning Star | Airborne early warning and control | Lockheed Corporation | Developed from the Lockheed C-121 Constellation | 1949 | 1954 | 232 | |
Grumman E-1 Tracer | Carried-based airborne early warning | Grumman | Developed from the Grumman C-1 Trader. | 1956 | 1958 | 88 | |
Northrop Grumman E-2 Hawkeye | Carried-based airborne early warning | Northrop Grumman | Highly used by the United States Navy; developed into the Grumman C-2 Greyhound | 1960 | 1964 | 313 (total); 88 (E-2D) [1] |
Name | Role | Manufacturer | Notes | Year of
first flight |
Introduction | Number built | Image |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Boeing E-3 Sentry | Airborne early warning and control | Boeing Defense, Space & Security | Developed from the Boeing 707 | EC-137D: 9 February 1972
E-3: 25 May 1976 [2] |
1977 | 68 | |
Boeing E-4 | Airborne early warning and control | Boeing | Developed from the Boeing 747-200 | 1973 | 1974 | 4 |