From Iraq to War in Ukraine: E-8 scout aircraft in the United States retired (photo)

E-8 Jstars performed combat missions during the Storm Operation in the desert, during the war in the Balkans, as well as over the territory of Ukraine a month before a full-scale invasion. There is no direct replacement of the aircraft. After more than two decades of operation, the US Air Force deduct the E-8 Jstars radio reconnaissance aircraft. This was reported by the 116th air management of the National Guard of Georgia on Facebook.

The aircraft conducted a huge amount of operation during the operation, from the support of the infantry on the battlefield to monitoring the situation over Ukraine to the start of a full -scale war. E-8 has been known about the decommissioning of E-8 since the beginning of 2023, but it will not receive a direct replacement of the aircraft at this time. The last Mission for the E-8 took place on June 26, 2023 at Ramstein Air Base in Germany.

Then the aircraft operated the 10th Expeditionary Airborne Command and Management detachment, which was deployed in Europe. The plane was held at a home base in Georgia. By this point, Jstars performed critically important exploration for command, including flights directly over Ukraine on the eve of a full -scale invasion. The aircraft performed its tasks during the storm in the desert in 1991, then in the Balkans.

The Jstars was valued for the ability to combine command and control on the battlefield with the gathering of intelligence. To do this, he had SAR -type radars that created a map of the area at a distance. It also has an indicator of moving GMTI goals, which can track traffic over a large area. We will remind, on September 22 in the United States retired the first fighting pilot of the fighter F-15E in the air forces.