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Ukraine confirms combat flights of its new radar plane

The Erieye radar can detect air and sea targets up to 280 miles away and feed tracking data to F-16, Mirage 2000 and Gripen fighters.

Summary by Defence Blog
Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense has confirmed that a Swedish-supplied Saab 340 airborne early warning aircraft (AEW&C), known as the ASC 890, has been flying combat missions over Ukraine since March 2026, according to information the ministry released detailing the country’s expanding fleet of Western combat aircraft. Sweden first announced it would transfer the aircraft in […]

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The Swedish ASC 890 aerial surveillance aircraft is conducting combat flights over Ukrainian territory. This was finally officially confirmed on the website of ...

This was reported by the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine. “An important component of the development of aviation capabilities was the decision of Sweden to transfer to Ukraine a long-range radar detection aircraft...

The aircraft allows to receive information about air targets at a considerable distance and transmit it to combat aircraft

·Kyiv, Ukraine
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Defence Blog broke the news in United States on Saturday, September 5, 2026.
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