The Boeing E-3 Sentry is a flying command-and-control center. It's a tactical spy plane, designed to give commanders a sweeping, real-time picture of everything on the battlefield.

They are rare, old, and very expensive. Iran blew one up, along with some air to air refueling planes, and injuring 10-14 soldiers, numbers vary upon report, but it's getting very little airplay in American media.

This yahoo link was the best nonpaywalled source I could find that also linked out to a ton of other sources.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/images-purportedly-show-e-3-060505478.html

#iran #israel #US #war #E3Sentry

Jesus fucking Christ. Where were you when you found out E-3 Sentry was kill??

https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/most-valuable-us-support-destroyed-iran-e3

Shitstain's White House caught lying again - Iran took out an E-3 Sentry, which is kind of a big deal:

https://www.twz.com/air/images-purportedly-show-e-3-sentry-totally-destroyed-from-iranian-strike

#iran #war #e3Sentry #awacs