Crossword clues for awacs
awacs
- Spy plane acronym
- Sophisticated U.S. detection aircraft
- Gulf War surveillance sys
- US surveillance plane
- US military plane
- Surveillance plane acronym
- Sophisticated detection aircraft
- Sky surveillance acronym
- Radar-dome spy plane
- High-tech system on recon planes
- High-tech spy plane acronym
- Gulf War defense acronym
- Desert Storm plane acronym
- Boeing E-3 Sentry, e.g
- Modern surveillance tool
- Military plane acronym
- Sophisticated military plane
- Eyes-in-the-skies acronym
- Gulf war planes
- Radar-equipped plane
- High-tech surveillance acronym
- ___ plane (military craft)
- Radar system acronym
- Spy in the sky, for short
- Recon aircraft
- Detection aircraft
- U.S. mil. plane
- Type of U.S. radar plane
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1966, initialism (acronym) for "Airborne Warning and Control Systems."
Usage examples of "awacs".
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If they take Samar International Airport near Davao and start using it as a forward staging base, it definitely means no AWACS or tankers-and it may mean no Air Battle Force over Mindanao.
The AWACS overhead will be accompanied by four F-111 attack craft equipped with air-to-air and air-to-surface missiles.
Almost all of the SU-35s, half of the SU-37s and most importantly, a full 75% of the J-10 fighters were also shot down, along with several tankers, three AWACS and almost one hundred of the attack aircraft.
The surviving AWACS was back at altitude now, eighty miles behind the Rhein, and its radar operators were working to reestablish control of the air battle over central Germany as the MiGs ran for home through a cloud of NATO surface-to-air missiles.
Although the Mt-179 was not a normal aircraft, Russian stealth technology such as was employed on the Metyor-179 Shadow was not perfect, and the closer they got to central Macedonia, the closer they got to the E-3 AWACS radar plane.
The USA is hugely curious but not yet narrow-eyed (the object is too slow to be a serious threat) but nevertheless an AWACS reconnaissance aircraft has been diverted from routine duties to a line of interception and two fighters are scrambled up from a strip near Fort Fairfield, Maine.
Additionally, although her capabilities were more limited than the AWACS, the Hawkeye could serve as electronic intercept aircraft and provide a whole host of intelligence information.
It wasn't a perfect system-if the enemy fighter wasn't transmitting any signals, AWACS would be completely blind.
The AWACS lost a little ground when it refueled, but it's only a hundred fifty miles back now, and that's not a problem.
Somewhere to his rear, a Rivet Joint EC-135 was monitoring both the radar and the radios used by the Chinese ground controllers, and would cross-load any warnings to the AWACS.
The American strike package consisted of thirty-six F/A-18E aircraft fitted for the surface attack role, eight F/A-18F two seat Hornets fitted for the Wild-Weasel direct radar suppression role, four EA-6B aircraft fitted for indirect Electronics Warfare and direct radar suppression, eight F/A-18E and eight F-14D aircraft fitted for air superiority, two E2-C AWACS aircraft to provide early warning and radar services, and two S3-A tanker aircraft flying with the AWACS to provide additional fuel for the return trip.