Delays push RAF E-7 service entry to 2026

The Royal Air Force (RAF) now expects to receive its first Boeing E-7A Wedgetail by the end of 2025. Initial operational capability of the new airborne early warning and control (AEW&C) aircraft is now anticipated in 2026. Andy Start, acting UK national armaments director and chief executive officer of Defence Equipment and Support, told a UK Parliament Public Accounts Committee hearing on April 28, 2025: “We should have the first of the Wedgetails with us by the end of the