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Step Toward Blocking E-7 Wedgetail Radar Jet Program Cancellation Taken By Congress
The Pentagon wants to buy extra E-2 Hawkeyes instead of E-7s ahead of establishing a satellite constellation to do their job.
The House Armed Services Committee has made an initial move toward reversing the Pentagon’s plan to axe the acquisition of E-7 Wedgetail airborne early warning and control aircraft for the U.S. Air Force. The E-7s had previously been working to replace a portion of the Air Force’s increasingly unsupportable E-3 Sentry Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) fleet ahead of plans to eventually push most, if not all of its airborne target warning sensor layer into space. The Pentagon has also now laid out plans to buy more of the Navy’s E-2D Hawkeye airborne early warning and control planes to mitigate capability gaps in the interim.

An addition of $600 million for the “continuation of rapid prototyping” of the Air Force-specific version of the E-7 is included in a draft of the annual defense policy bill, or National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), for the 2026 Fiscal Year, which the House Armed Services Committee released today. The Air Force first announced its intention to buy Wedgetails in 2022. The service had been working to acquire two production representative prototypes for test and evaluation purposes as a lead-in to a finalized production configuration, examples of which were expected to begin entering operational service in 2027. The program had already suffered notable delays and cost growth, which the Pentagon has said were major factors in the cancellation decision.

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