Digital Battlespace
American E-11A BACN aircraft crashes in Afghanistan
The E-11A Battlefield Airborne Communications Node (BACN) aircraft is a rare platform in the USAF, and one of just four in service crashed near Ghazni in Afghanistan on 27 January.
According to images that quickly circulated on social media, the aircraft, bearing the serial number ‘11-9358’, crashed in Deh Yak ...
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