The last EP-3E Aries II of VQ-1 “World Watchers” has completed its final operational mission and returned home. On Oct. 29, 2024, after nearly sixty years of service, the EP-3E Aries II ISR ...

The EP-3E Aries II is a signals intelligence platform that has served for decades, gathering intelligence on foreign communications, electronic emissions, and troop movements. The type first came ...

A project called Story Maker is supposed to help identify potential hostile targets for the U.S. Navy's fleet of Lockheed Martin EP-3E Aries II signals intelligence (SIGINT) reconnaissance aircraft.

A U.S. Navy EP-3E Aries II maritime patrol aircraft. US Navy Photo THE PENTAGON — A U.S. Navy EP-3E Aries II surveillance aircraft was intercepted at close range by a Russian Sukhoi Su-27 ...

The service last September carved a requirement to replace its Lockheed Martin EP-3E Aries II fleet out of the MMA programme and attached the 14-19-aircraft order to a new maritime variant of the ...

Yet, the opportunity to replace 11 ageing Lockheed EP-3E ARIES II aircraft - the electronic intelligence-gathering subset of the USN's maritime patrol aircraft fleet - has sparked a wide-open and ...

Screen capture from video of a Su-27 conducting an unsafe intercept of a Navy EP-3E Aries II over the Black Sea on Nov. 5, 2018, US Navy Image A Russian Su-27 intercepted a U.S. EP-3 Aries II ...

The 24 crew members of the U.S. EP-3E Aries II surveillance plane stranded in China touched down at Hickam AFB, Hawaii, April 12 just before 6:30 a.m. Hawaii time, or 12:30 p.m. Eastern ...

WASHINGTON -- The Navy on Monday released the names of the 24 members of the crew of the EP-3E Aries II electronic surveillance plane that landed in China after colliding with a Chinese fighter jet.