Hey, welcome into the lowdown. It has been a minute since I've released one of these via the podcast, as well as since I've released one over on the lowdown YouTube channel. That's a new one that's really just kind of focused on these lowdowns and aviation defense breakdowns, etc. It has been a busy few weeks, months for me now, especially getting into towards the holiday season trying to do all my

flying so that hopefully I can be home for the holiday season. I'm actually in Frankfurt right now

on the tail end of a trip. So I released a newsletter this past weekend. If you're not a newsletter

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let's jump into this week kicked it off with an article about the e7 i did not think this year

we would be talking about the e7 as much as we have with the newsletter so the e7 is a replacement

to the e3 AWACs.

You might be asking what's an AWACs. Well, that's airborne early warning and control.

This is the plane that's flying around that has the big dome on top of it that's providing

the C2 picture, command of control.

It's the air picture.

If you're a fighter aircraft, you're relying on the AWACs to help identify hostile

targets, help identify targets, who's good, who's bad, and help run the air war, if you will.

Now, AWACs has been around for quite a while since the 70s. The E7 is a 737 platform that has a Mesa radar.

It's electronically scanned a radar.

This is taking like the acronym, sorry,

like the analogy usually goes on the podcast.

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