(VOVworld) – German media reported Sunday that NATO will send an E-3 Sentry AWACS, an airborne early warning and control aircraft, to Turkey. A spokesman for the German Defense Ministry has confirmed the information, saying that the deployment will be done by Germany’s air forces. But he didn’t give a specific date for the mission, which is to prevent another incident like Turkey's recent downing of a Russian fighter jet. The airborne early warning and control aircraft will monitor the airspace within a radius of 400 km and exchange information with ground-based, sea-based and airborne command centers.