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The advanced imaging multi-spectrum sensor on board a P-3 aircraft

NORTHERN JAPAN (March 22, 2011) The advanced imaging multi-spectrum sensor on board a P-3 aircraft, from Patrol Squadron 4 (VP 4), displays a damaged highway overpass near a northern-Japanese port. With the squadron’s communication and real-time capabilities, the Navy will gain more knowledge of where it can provide vital humanitarian and relief support to tsunami stricken areas of Japan. VP 4 has recently repositioned to Naval Air Facility Misawa in support of Operation Tomodachi. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Devon Dow/Released)

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Ein Airborne Early Warning and Control System, kurz AWACS, ist ein fliegendes Radarsystem. Aufgabe des AWACS ist die luftgestützte Luftraumaufklärung und -überwachung mit dem Ziel der Früherkennung und Vorwarnung

Royal Air Force E3D Sentry AWACS Reconnaisance Aircraft

A Royal Air Force E3D Sentry is pictured on a sortie from RAF Waddington. The RAF operates seven E-3D Sentry aircraft in the airborne surveillance and command-and-control role. The aircraft are based at RAF Waddington, where they are operated by Nos 8 and 23 Squadrons as the UK’s contribution to the NATO Airborne Early Warning and Control Force. The E-3D also forms one arm of the UK Intelligence, Surveillance, Target Acquisition and Reconnaissance (ISTAR) triad of Sentinel R1, E-3D and Nimrod R1 aircraft. Whilst primarily procured as an airborne early warning aircraft, the E- 3D has been extensively employed in the Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) role. The E-3D Sentry, known to the RAF as the AEW1, is based on the commercial Boeing 707-320B aircraft, which has been extensively modified and updated to accommodate modern mission systems. Mission endurance is approximately 11 hours (over 5000nmls), although this can be extended by air-to-air refuelling. The E-3D is the only aircraft in the RAF’s inventory capable of air-to-air refuelling by both the American ‘flying-boom’ system and the RAF’s ‘probe-and-drogue’ method.

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Die Northrop B-2 Spirit ist ein strategischer Langstreckenbomber, der ausschließlich von der United States Air Force betrieben wird. Sein herausragendes Merkmal ist die tarnkappenoptimierte Konstruktion, wodurch er wesentlich schwieriger zu entdecken und zu bekämpfen ist als konventionelle strategische Bomber.

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Die F-16 Fighting Falcon ist ein Mehrzweckkampfjet des amerikanischen Unternehmens General Dynamics, dessen Militärflugzeugsparte mittlerweile zu Lockheed Martin gehört.

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