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AWACs cover very large areas...coordinating airstrikes is most of what they were designed for.
Actually, I think they're designed for coordinating air movement -- like an airborne air-traffic control tower. Coordinating ground strikes isn't really their thing. They can vector planes toward a given area, but they can't tell them what to blow up once they get there unless it's a fixed or very obvious target.
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Actually the AWAC was intially designed for early warning to watch those little Soviet buggers. Remember the EC-121 and the Super Connie ( Constllation ) varient ? There was a famous and sort of danergous run between Alaska and Northern JApan and back during the cold war. We did electronic and voice eavesdropping back in tghose days before we had the super powered computers and hi-tech satelites. The Connie was a prop job (propellers for you young-uns) (*)(*)(*)(*) I FEEL OLD !!!!!
The AWAC platform was easily adopted to Tac- Support ......