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For thirty years, just one type of platform handled the monumental task of tracking virtually all ground targets in a combat theater for the United States military. When the Air Force flew Northrop Grumman’s E-8C Joint STARS jet home for the last time in September 2023, it didn’t just sunset an airframe, it was the end of an era. No new plane rolled off the assembly line to take over the job the radically modified Boeing 707s had done to great acclaim since the Gulf War.

