Henry J Cobb wrote:
But the Air Force has concluded that they don't need jamming.

No, it hasn't done that at all, Henry. Once again, you write with no actual
knowledge of the situation.

The services did a study (The Airborn Electronic Attack Analysis of
Alternatives) that came back with a whole bunch of options. The Navy
component was pretty clear -- EA-18 was the best option. The Air Force has
a more complex situation and the options ranged from UAVs to widebody jets
to EF-22s to EB-52s or some combination of the above. So they decided that
they needed to look some more to decide if a direct replacement was the
right solution or to pursue something different (like UAVs). AFAIK, they
have not settled on a final solution, but "nothing" is not it. They are
apparently making some moves on fitting B-52s for electronic attack as a
near-term fix.

Two articles that describe the process and the current Air Force situation:

http://www.afa.org/magazine/June2002/0602attack.html

http://www.jedonline.com/default.asp...age=0311j24 &
year=2003&month=11&doct=ec%20monitor&rsno=4#1

Henry, I'm getting really tired of doing your homework for you, BTW. Lack
of knowledge is excusable. But willful ignorance, even when confronted with
information to the contrary, is simply rude.

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