"Robert Sveinson" wrote in message
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"guy" wrote in message
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On 29 May, 03:44, hcobb wrote:
On May 28, 7:28 pm, Mike wrote:

E-2D and Maritime Securityhttp://lexingtoninstitute.org/docs/857.pdf

Navies of the world which have the ships to operate such aircraft:
One.

Pity the Brits don't get this.

-HJC

Er, except for a brief interlude (late 70s early 80s) the RN has had
AWACS since just after WW2

Guy

I seem to remember that in late 1944, or early
1945 the RAF were developing,
an AWACS type of system, so that
the bombers could go deep into Germany.

Some testing was done with a modified Wellington but
it never entered service. The first AEW aircraft to enter
squadron service was the AEW Avenger. The RN used
the AEW Skyraider equipped with the APS-20 radar
which was in turn superseded by the Fairey Gannet.

The responsibility for AEW remained with the RN until the
retirement of the Fleet carriers and Gannet in the early 1970's

The first operational RAF AEW unit was 8 Squadron equipped
with Shackletons equipped with the now rather elderly APS-20
radars in 1972.

Keith