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When combined with CAE’s experience supporting the NATO E-3A AWACS training program over the past 40 years, CAE is the world’s most experienced training provider for the E-3 airborne warning and control system (AWACS) aircraft :
One E-3A flying at 9,150 metres (30,000 feet) has a radar coverage of 312,000 square kilometres. Three E-3As in overlapping orbits can provide complete radar coverage of all of Central Europe. Governments request NATO AWACS support and their surveillance capability for major public events.
The aircraft and mission systems selected to form the NAEW&C Force were based on the USAF’s E-3 Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS).
The E-3A Component is NATO's first integrated, multi-national flying unit, providing rapid deployability, airborne surveillance, command, control and communication for NATO operations.
E-3 aircrew training system characteristics. Fully integrated and scalable; Total tailored training solution for cockpit aircrew; Supports all training missions to include aerial refueling
THE NATO E-3A AIRCRAFT The E-3A Component has fourteen E-3A aircraft. These modified Boeing 707s are easily identifiable from the distinctive radar dome mounted on the fuselage. The E-3A usually operates at an altitude of around 10 km.
In December 1978, NATO’s Defence Planning Committee approved the joint acquisition of 18 E-3A AWACS aircraft to be operated as an Alliance-owned airborne early warning system. The NATO Airborne Early Warning and Control (NAEW&C) programme is the largest commonly funded project
