The Lockheed EC-121 Warning Star is an American airborne early warning and control radar surveillance aircraft operational in the 1950s in both the United States Navy (USN) and United States Air Force (USAF).

Title: WV-2 Warning Star in Flight. Caption: A side view of a WV-2 shows the ventral and dorsal radomes of this airborne early warning version of the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation Super...

The original Navy designation for the airborne early warning version of the Warning Star was WV, prompting the crews to adopt the nickname “Willie Victor.” During the Cold War WV/EC-121 aircraft...

The big four-engine radar guard, a Super-Constellation type known as the WV2, last reported about 3 a.m. Thursday on a routine flight to the Azores from its base in Argentia, Nfld. It said then it was 1,000 miles from Newfoundland and about 200 from the Azores.

US Navy versions were the WV-2. The USAF aircraft entered service in 1953 with the Air Defense Command. Their primary mission was to fly patrols along the U.S. coasts as a part of the Distant Early Warning (DEW) Line. Missions of 10 to 12 hours were common. A total of 72 RC-121Ds were built between 1951 and 1955.

The Lockheed EC-121 Warning Star was a United States Navy and United States Air Force Airborne early warning and control radar surveillance aircraft. A military version of the Lockheed L-1049 Super Constellation, it was designed to serve as an airborne early warning system to supplement the Distant Early Warning Line, using two large radomes, a ...

The Lockheed EC-121 Warning Star was an Airborne early warning and control radar surveillance aircraft in service with the United States Navy and the United States Air Force in the 1950s.

We hope to bring to light the effort and sacrifice of the Navy crewmen of the WV-2s (known affectionately by the Navy crewmen as the "Willy Victor" ) who stood watch to let the free world rest easy.

2012年1月18日 · The Warning Star entered production as Navy WV-2 “Willie Victors” in March 1954, and as Air Force RC-121s shortly thereafter. Both services had operational squadrons by May 1955. All the Warning Stars were re-designated EC-121s in 1962.

These aircraft entered service as the Navy WV-2, with 244 ordered, and the Air Force EC-121, 82 ordered of which 72 were from US Navy orders. The Warning Star entered service in 1955, with the final variants being retired from the US Air Force Reserve in 1978.