{"id":97866,"date":"2024-07-31T03:00:12","date_gmt":"2024-07-30T17:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/why-does-us-air-force-need-boeing-e-7a-wedgetail\/"},"modified":"2024-07-31T03:00:12","modified_gmt":"2024-07-30T17:00:12","slug":"why-does-the-us-air-force-need-the-boeing-e-7a-wedgetail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=97866","title":{"rendered":"Why Does The US Air Force Need The Boeing E-7A Wedgetail?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                    AWACS, or Airborne Warning and Control Systems, are some of the rarest and most expensive aircraft in any Air force&#8217;s inventory. The next generation of US Air Force AWACS is the E-7A Wedgetail, which is considered one of <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/top-5-airborne-early-warning-and-control-aewc-aircraft\/\" >the best AWACS aircraft in the world today<\/a>. They are significant enablers, often greatly increasing the effectiveness of fighter jets and other aircraft. They are the eyes and ears of an <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/air-force\/\">air force<\/a>, and the crews who operate them are some of the most highly trained and difficult to replace.    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>E-7A Wedgetails are needed to replace the aging E-3 Sentries and ensure the US Air Force can continue to monitor the battlespace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,397,11087,567,412,3298,1384],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-analysis","category-awacs","category-guides","category-military","category-spy-plane","category-us-air-force"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=97866"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97867,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97866\/revisions\/97867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=97866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=97866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=97866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}