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Boeing to Deliver Early Warning Control Aircraft to S.Korea

Written: 2011-03-02 07:38:53Updated: 2011-03-02 15:41:25

A U.S. defense industry magazine says early warning and control aircraft will be deployed in South Korea for the first time in July.

Defense News quoted procurement officials as saying that Boeing will deliver the first of four planned 737 Airborne Early Warning and Control "Peace Eye" planes to South Korea in July.

The planes have a maximum range of seven-thousand kilometers.

Defense News described the aircraft as “a core part in South Korea's pursuit of achieving independent intelligence gathering, surveillance and reconnaissance capability to prepare for the transition of wartime operational control from the U.S. to South Korea in 2015.”

The report added that the planes “will offer all-weather surveillance, command-and-control, and communications platform to guide fighter-interceptors and tactical air force aircraft to combat areas to attack ground targets at low altitudes, with on-board battle management crew conducting planning, direction, coordination, and control of forces and operations.”

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