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Fading Signal: The Neglect of Electronic Warfare.
They guy in the aircraft may very well be USAF. The Ea-6B are dual crewed since the EF-111 went away.
I thought the USN reverted its three or four expeditionary ("purple") EA-6B squadrons back to "fleet" (USN only) outfits not too long ago, due to the aging of this National Asset platform and the need to conserve the remaining good airframes until the EF-18G Growler comes on line. If so, then the USMC Prowlers have become the only EA-6Bs primarily land-based or "expeditionary." I might be wrong, though... -- Mike Kanze "Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure." - Mark Skousen "tankfixer" wrote in message ... In article 25be0da4-ab1b-45a1-9050-64e90dcf360d@ 1g2000prg.googlegroups.com, says... On Feb 16, 7:37 am, Mike wrote: Fading Signal: The Neglect of Electronic Warfare. Lexington Institute.http://lexingtoninstitute.org/1223.shtml When you consider how much money Americans spend on defense -- about $4 trillion so far in this decade alone -- it's amazing what a poor job we do of maintaining our military arsenal. In the years since the cold war ended, the Navy's fleet has shrunk by half to fewer than 300 ships, the Air Force's planes have "matured" to twice the age of the commercial airline fleet, and the Army has largely abandoned the production of heavy armored vehicles. There's a simple reason for all these signs of military decay: the threat went away. No peer adversary has taken the place of the Red Army or the Imperial Navy. I note that the USN Grumman EA-6B is being used to create a jammed space around ground US patrols in Iraq. Where did you rear that ? The jamming prevents the detonation of improvised explosive devices. Presumably highly directional electronically shaped antenna create temporal grace around the patrol. The USAF apparently can't do this mission due to the degradation of this type of aircraft. They guy in the aircraft may very well be USAF. The Ea-6B are dual crewed since the EF-111 went away. The money is going into the occupation of Iraq. Eventually advanced tech will be needed, maybe to protect Taiwan for a little longer from a rapidly empowering China. -- "Oh Norman, listen! The loons are calling!" - Katherine Hepburn, "On Golden Pond" |
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Fading Signal: The Neglect of Electronic Warfare.
On Apr 8, 10:41*pm, Mike Williamson
wrote: wrote: * * And the Air Force had to walk from electronic warfare. * * Since the idiots still don't understand that nothing is as * * stealthy as an electonic Satellite.. Since the "Radar" * * the idiots are evading, isn't radar, it's the media. * *I hate to interrupt a good show of rhetoric, but the Air Force hasn't "had to walk from" electronic warfare, That's simple to understand why, since the air force idiots are the perfect students of *rhetoric*, and redefine "electric" "electronic" and "warfare" and "force" and "air" and "radar" as they go along. Which is mostly why Digital, GPS, Cruise Missles, Laser-guided Bombs, Internet, and Drones were developed for the cranks. as we still have a dedicated electronic attack platform, that has been deployed for the last 4 years and counting- an online base "paper" article noted one of the two deployed squadrons passing the 10,000th combat flight hour associated with that deployment in January of last year. * *As to the rest of the paragraph- *what?? Mike |
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