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Joint Stars program (2): the technical sheet of E-8C

Washington, Usa - The plane is a link between the ground forces and the battlefield

The Joint E-8c Stars (Joint Surveillance Target Attack System Radar) is an aircraft whose functions are surveillance, control and acquisition on the enemy forces information which then are sent to ground plants in order to point the proper strategy. The E-8C is the modified version of Boeing 707-300 whose variations are useful to its scopes: powerful systems of transmission, radars, devices for the...

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Rome, Italy, 02/26/2003 16:14
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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