Use "awacs" in a sentence

1. Standing well off the Senkaku Islands, an E-3B AWACS airborne surveillance aircraft fed a constantly updated air plot picture of the area to its base in Okinawa via an encrypted directional data link

2. Apart from providing satellite photos and an AWACS surveillance aircraft, the United States was also discreetly helping Japan by allowing Japanese crews to use the war stocks of airborne and shipborne missiles kept in its bases in Okinawa and mainland Japan, thus alleviating a major concern of the Japanese military staff

3. With the supporting American E-3B AWACS surveillance aircraft now orbiting safely from the proximity of Taiwanese airspace, the Japanese fighters had been ready for the Chinese onslaught and had shot down dozens of Chinese warplanes before they could even get within visual distance from the Senkakus

4. AWACS: Airborne Warning and Command System, a converted 707 or 767 model Boeing four engined jet aircraft equipped with a hugely powerful Westinghouse/Northrop Grumman radar mounted in a UFO saucer-like rotating motorized dome affixed to the aircraft's upper rear fuselage

5. The AWACS has an average detection range of about 250 miles at a flight altitude of 30,000 feet and 3 such aircraft flying overlapping coverage routes could protect all of Central Europe

6. JSTARS: Joint Surveillance Tactical Airborne Radar System, an aircraft similar to an AWACS, but configured to monitor ground movement, instead of aircraft

7. Unfortunately, Weyland ultimately failed important electronics tests that would have allowed him to advance into AWACs as a radar technician