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From: daveg@prowler.clearpoint.com
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Air Superiority B-52?
Message-ID: <1991Jun14.080046.20180@amd.com>
Date: 13 Jun 91 10:55:45 GMT
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From: daveg@prowler.clearpoint.com


bcstec!shuksan!major@uunet.UU.NET (Mike Schmitt) said:
> The AWACS airframe is a modified Boeing 707-320B.  Boeing just shut
> down it's 707 line after the last AWACS was shipped off to France.  If
> other countries want AWACS - Boeing will start up the 707 line again.
> Current countries with AWACS include; Saudi Arabia, Britain, France,
> and NATO.

I think you can add to the list Israel and Japan, and I suspect
there's one or two more.

> The 'military' version of the 707 is also the airframe for E6, E4, and KC135.

This presents an interesting problem, as the J-STARS aircraft is based
on the 707 platform.  I recall hearing that there was concern about
using old airframes if Boeing did indeed shut down the 707 production line.

And since (according to CNN, anyway; I haven't heard it from Grumman),
22 aircraft are going to be delievered by 1994 (!), what are they
going to put them in?

--
Dave Goldblatt 
daveg@clearpoint.com
Software Engineering (Subsystems)
Clearpoint Research Corporation