Tinker Air Force Base Retires Some AWACS Planes

Tinker Air Force base entered a new era on Thursday.

The base's AWACS planes, which are the planes with the radar domes on top, were retired and replaced with a more modern version of the plane.

The E-3 was the old plane, and the new one is the E-7.

Fifteen of the bases 27 AWACS are being decommissioned and sent to a location in Arizona known as "the Boneyard".