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Northrop Grumman E-8 JSTARS
JSTARS
“Ground surveillance from 40,000 feet.”
Northrop Grumman · military
Length
152 ft 11 in
Wingspan
145 ft 9 in
Max speed
461 kts
Range
4,600 nmi
Ceiling
42,000 ft
Engines
4x Pratt & Whitney TF33-102C
Crew
34
Built
32
The E-8 JSTARS carries a massive radar that can track every vehicle on a battlefield.
Fun fact
JSTARS radar can detect ground vehicles at ranges over 150 miles.
How to spot one
707 airframe with a large canoe-shaped radar under the forward fuselage. Gray paint. Air National Guard.
Crews call it
The JSTARS
Sounds like
Four TF33s on a 707 frame — classic quad-jet sound with a ground-surveillance mission
Related
One might be overhead right now.
Bogey turns the JSTARS from a dot in the sky into a card in your logbook. Coming to iOS and Android.
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