Lockheed EC-121 Warning Star
Lockheed EC-121 Warning Star adalah pesawat pengintai (reconnaissance aircraft) sayap rendah (low wing) dan radar peringatan dini Angkatan Laut Amerika Serikat dan Angkatan udara Amerika Serikat. Sebuah versi militer dari Lockheed Constellation, ia dirancang untuk berfungsi sebagai sistem peringatan dini udara untuk melengkapi Distant Early Warning Line, menggunakan dua buah pemindai, kubah vertikal di atas dan satu horisontal di bawah badan pesawat.
EC-121 juga digunakan untuk pengumpulan intelijen (SIGINT).
Referensi
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Pranala luar
Wikimedia Commons memiliki media mengenai Lockheed EC-121 Warning Star.
- National Museum of the United States Air Force
- Airborne Early Warning Association website
- Larry Westin EC-121R Batcat site
- Dean Boys EC-121 page
- Dean Boys 552 AEWCW site
- Willy Victor (WV-2) Page Diarsipkan 2011-07-18 di Wayback Machine.
- Copy of Time Magazine article, April 25, 1969, on EC-121 shootdown