The end of an era for the Last E-8C Joint STARS "Farewell to the Eye in the Sky"

very sad day 😞 The last E-8C Joint STARS 02-9111 Taxing and Takeoff for the last time.
on November 4th 2023 The 116th Air Control Wing Bid a Sunset Celebration For Team Joint STARS. 02-9111 is The last E-8C Joint STARS to be retired from Service. After more than two decades of service, Team JSTARS completed its final flight.

Timestamp Info
00:00 Intro
00:56 E-8C Joint STARS 02-9111 Taxing out
02:05 E-8C Joint STARS 02-9111 Takeoff
04:01 E-8C Joint STARS 02-9111 Fly-Bys
06:00 E-8C Joint STARS 02-9111 Landing

The E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System, or Joint STARS, is an airborne battle management, command and control, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance platform. Its primary mission is to provide theater ground and air commanders with ground surveillance to support attack operations and targeting that contributes to the delay, disruption and destruction of enemy forces.

The E-8C is a modified Boeing 707-300 series commercial airframe extensively remanufactured and modified with the radar, communications, operations and control subsystems required to perform its operational mission. The most prominent external feature is the 27-foot (8 meters) long, canoe-shaped radome under the forward fuselage that houses the 24-foot (7.3 meters) long, side-looking phased array antenna.

The radar and computer subsystems on the E-8C can gather and display detailed battlefield information on ground forces. The information is relayed in near-real time to the Army and Marine Corps common ground stations and to other ground command, control, communications, computers and intelligence, or C4I, nodes.

The antenna can be tilted to either side of the aircraft where it can develop a 120-degree field of view covering nearly 19,305 square miles (50,000 square kilometers) and is capable of detecting targets at more than 250 kilometers (more than 820,000 feet). The radar also has some limited capability to detect helicopters, rotating antennas and low, slow-moving fixed wing aircraft.

As a battle management and command and control asset, the E-8C can support the full spectrum of roles and missions from peacekeeping operations to major theater war.

General Characteristics
Primary function: airborne battle management
Contractor: Northrop Grumman Corp. (primary)
Power plant: four Pratt and Whitney TF33-102C
Thrust: 19,200 pounds each engine
Wingspan: 145 feet, 9 inches (44.4 meters) Length: 152 feet, 11 inches (46.6 meters) Height: 42 feet, 6 inches (13 meters)
Weight: 171,000 pounds (77,564 kilograms)
Maximum takeoff weight: 336,000 pounds (152,409 kilograms)
Fuel capacity: 155,000 (70,306 kilograms)
Payload: electronic equipment and crew
Speed: 449 - 587 mph (optimum orbit speed) or Mach 0.52 - 0.65 (390 - 510 knots)
Range: nine hours
Ceiling: 42,000 feet (12,802 meters)
Crew: (flight crew), four; (mission crew) normally 15 Air Force and three Army specialists (crew size varies according to mission)
Unit Cost: $244.4 million (fiscal 98 constant dollars)

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