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===Airborne Early Warning and Control/AWACS and Command Planes===
AWACS planes are used to direct allied squadrons to their proper targets and make sense of the gajillions of people screaming into the radio at any one point of the battle. Usually have dedicated high power radar that you can't fit in a fighter. Command planes are just that, serving as a mobile command center for some high ranking REMF (rear echelon motherfucker) to micromanage their troops, or at least give said REMF eyes and ears on the field and also as VIP planes such as the famous Air Force One. One rather brutal application of the AWACS is guiding missiles fired from fighters from tens of kilometers away to enemy targets, the shooter not turning on radar and the poor bastard getting blown out of the air without even realizing that the standard wide area AWACS scan is actually getting his ass marked for death. A 45km example was given when a Turkish F-16 shot down a Syrian L-39 with an AMRAAM guided by AWACS radar.

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