- Domain
- Air
- NCF capability
- Air enablers
- Military Balance category
- Airborne early warning and control
- SIPRI category
- Aircraft
- Evidence that places a platform here
- airborne early warning · \bAEW · \bAWACS\b · early warning and control · E-(2|3|7)\b · A-50 · KJ-\d
The 24 nations
None, legacy only, modern, or modern and on order. Modern: in service from 1995, or the current generations of fighters, tanks, submarines and long-range air defence.
United StatesLegacy only · 1United KingdomNone · 1AustraliaModern · 1FranceLegacy only · 4GermanyLegacy only · 1JapanModern · 2South KoreaModern · 1CanadaNoneItalyModern · 1IndiaModern · 4TürkiyeNoneSaudi ArabiaLegacy only · 2BrazilModern · 1IndonesiaNoneMexicoModern · 1ArgentinaNoneSouth AfricaNoneRussiaModern · 2ChinaModern · 8IsraelModern · 3UkraineLegacy only · 1TaiwanLegacy only · 1IranNoneNorth KoreaLegacy only · 1
Generation timeline
Each platform from its first flight or launch to today, the 40 most operated, earliest in service first. Grey is development and, after the lead operator retires it, the years other nations keep it; colour is service.
- Development, from first flight or launch
- In service, from first deployment
- After its lead operator retires it, still held elsewhere
- Today
- Flag beside the name: the home country
Dates from Wikidata: first flights or launches for 8 of these 9, retirements for 0. A bar without grey at its start has no first flight recorded.
Platforms
Ranked by the number of the 24 nations that hold each.
| Platform | Operators | Active | On order | In service | Generation | Origin |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boeing E-3 Sentry | 4 | 56 | 1977 | USA | ||
| Embraer R-99 | 3 | 14 | 1999 | BRA | ||
| Grumman E-2 Hawkeye | 3 | 29 | 3 | 1964 | USA | |
| Kamov Ka-31 | 3 | 23 | 1995 | RUS | ||
| Beriev A-50 | 2 | 3 | 1989 | SUN | ||
| Boeing E-7 Wedgetail | 2 | 10 | 2012 | USA | ||
| Air Tractor AT-802 | 1 | 8 | 1993 | USA | ||
| E-767 | 1 | 4 | 2000 | USA | ||
| KJ-200 | 1 | 4 | CHN | |||
| KJ-2000 | 1 | 4 | CHN | |||
| KJ-500 | 1 | 60 | CHN | |||
| Saab 2000 | 1 | 2 | 1994 | SWE | ||
| Saab 340 AEW&C | 1 | 2 | SWE | |||
| Xi'an KJ-600 | 1 | 3 | CHN | |||
| GlobalEye | 0 | 2 |
Fingerprints
Each nation's equipment fingerprint with only airborne early warning and control in colour.
United States Boeing E-3 Sentry 32
United Kingdom Boeing E-7 Wedgetail 0
Australia Boeing E-7 Wedgetail 6
France Boeing E-3 Sentry 4, Grumman E-2 Hawkeye 3, Global 6500 - GlobalEye 0
Germany Boeing E-3 Sentry E-3A 14
Japan Grumman E-2 Hawkeye 20, E-767 4
South Korea Boeing E-7 Wedgetail E-737 4
Italy Gulfstream G550 E-550A 2
India Kamov Ka-31 Ka-31 14, Beriev A-50 A-50EI 3, Embraer R-99 3
Saudi Arabia Boeing E-3 Sentry 6, Saab 2000 2000 AEW&C 2
Brazil Embraer R-99 E-99M 5
Mexico Embraer R-99 3
Russia Beriev A-50 –, Kamov Ka-31 –
China KJ-500 60, Kamov Ka-31 9, Shaanxi Y-8 KJ-200 6
Israel Beechcraft Bonanza A-36 "Khofit" 22, Air Tractor AT-802 AT-802F 8, Gulfstream G550 CAEW 2
Ukraine Saab 340 AEW&C S100B 2
Taiwan Grumman E-2 Hawkeye E-2K 4–8
North Korea Ilyushin Il-76 indigenous conversion 1–1