NATO E-3 AWACS to monitor Ukraine airspace

摘要

NATO's deployment of Boeing E-3 Sentry Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) aircraft over Poland and Romania will enable the alliance to monitor much of Ukrainian airspace, including the sensitive Crimea region. The aircraft will fly only above the territory of NATO members Romania and Poland and not, for example, international airspace over the Black Sea to prevent their presence being "seen as an escalatory move", a spokesperson for NATO Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE) told IHS Jane's on 11 March.