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Air Force To Study Replacement Options For Command And ISR Planes

By Marc Selinger

Thursday, February 22nd, 2018

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Air Force To Study Replacement Options For Command And ISR Planes

The RC-135 Rivet Joint. (Air Force photo)

ORLANDO, Fla. -- The U.S. Air Force is gearing up to launch a study this summer on options for replacing its fleets of large command-and-control (C2) and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) planes, a key general said Feb. 22.While the analysis of alternatives (AoA) was originally going to look at potential successors to the E-3 Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) aircraft, it will be broadened to include other aging, “big wing” C2 and ISR aircraft, including the RC-135 Rivet…

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