How Does The E-3 Sentry AWACS Enhance USAF Command And Control?

One good Air Battle Manager (ABM) article deserves another. A month after doing a write-up on the E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (JSTARS), which mainly deals with enemy ground vehicles (and low & slow flying enemy aircraft to some extent), now it’s time to cover JSTARS’s ABM comrade-in-arms, the E-3 Sentry Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) platform, which deals more with the aerial threats.