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Cancelled Airborne Early Warning aircraft project
Nimrod AEW3
Nimrod AEW3
Role
Airborne early warning and control
Type of aircraft
National origin
United Kingdom
Manufacturer
British Aerospace
First flight
16 July 1980[1]
Introduction
1984
Retired
1986
Status
Development cancelled
Primary user
Royal Air Force
Produced
11
Number built
3 prototype 8 production (all converted from MR1)
Developed from
Hawker Siddeley Nimrod
The British Aerospace Nimrod AEW3 was a proposed airborne early warning (AEW) aircraft which was to provide airborne radar cover for the air defence of the United Kingdom by the Royal Air Force (RAF). The project was designed to use the existing Nimrod airframe, in use with the RAF as a maritime patrol aircraft, combined with a new radar system and avionics package developed by Marconi Avionics.
The Nimrod AEW project proved to be hugely complex and expensive as a result of the difficulties of producing new radar and computer systems and integrating them successfully into the Nimrod airframe. The project was eventually cancelled, with the RAF instead purchasing new build Boeing E-3 Sentry aircraft to fulfil the AEW requirement.[2]
^"BAe Nimrod AEW3". The Spyflight Website. Archived from the original on 2 May 2012. Retrieved 11 May 2011.
^Aboulafia, Richard (May 2001). "Airborne Early Warning: An affordable necessity?". Aerospace America. Archived from the original on 15 January 2011. Retrieved 12 May 2011.
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