Monday, June 04, 2007

Monitoring the AWACS ALE

Information courtesy of Graham Tanner and the UDXF newsgroup:

US Air Force E-3 AWACS
71-1407 to 71-1408
73-1674 to 73-1675
75-0556 to 75-0560
76-1604 to 76-1607
77-0351 to 77-0356
78-0576 to 78-0578
79-0001 to 79-0003
80-0137 to 80-0139
81-0004 to 81-0005
82-0006 to 82-0007
83-0008 to 83-0009

The ALE addresses will be 'E3xxxxIGM' or 'E3xxxxDAT' etc, where 'xxxx' is the bit after the '-' in the aircraft tail-number.

Royal Air Force (UK) E-3 AWACS
ZH101 to ZH107
The ALE addresses will 'UKE301' to 'UKE307.'

French Air Force E-3 AWACS
201 to 204
Graham has no idea what/if any ALE addresses they would use.

NATO
Graham has no idea what/if any ALE addresses they would use. He has never seen
any mention of them.

The only others who have E-3 AWACS is Saudi Arabia and no additional data is known.