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Australia gets its first electronic warfare Growler aircraft
(Defensa.com) On July 29, the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) received at Boeing facilities in St. Louis, the first of its twelve aircraft electronic warfare EA-18G Growler. After delivery, the plane moves to the Naval Air Station China Lake in California for testing and then the Station Whidbey Island in Washington where Australian pilots gain experience formed alongside the US Navy.
In June last year Australia commissioned twelve such aircraft for airborne electronic attack (AEA for its acronym in English) for 3,000 million dollars, becoming the first international user after the US Navy. The RAAF justifies the purchase of such sophisticated equipment as a tool to maintain technological superiority over its regional adversaries and to operate closely with the United States in the region. The twelve Growler will be based at Amberley but is not expected arrival in Australia to 2017 being expected to reach initial operational capability (IOC) in mid 2018 and full operational capability (FOC) in early 2020.
The EA-18G Growler is based on the F / A-18 Super Hornet RAAF has acquired the number of 24 units and in its mission to accompany electronic protection, disruption or jamming tactical. Replacing the Grumman EA-6B Prowler in the Navy and currently is the only plane of its kind in production. Advanced built the aircraft electronics let you perform electronic support missions in which it can act disturbing, misleading or denying the use of adversary electronic systems such as communications or radar. These teams are improved radios, communications systems capable of operating in a saturated electromagnetic space, satellite communications or disturbing high and low frequency of family ALQ mounted under the fuselage and the wings. Despite the advanced qualities of this aircraft Boeing currently has no new orders so if these fail, the assembly of the Growler will close and the Super Hornet at the end of 2017
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(Defensa.com) On July 29, the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) received at Boeing facilities in St. Louis, the first of its twelve aircraft electronic warfare EA-18G Growler. After delivery, the plane moves to the Naval Air Station China Lake in California for testing and then the Station Whidbey Island in Washington where Australian pilots gain experience formed alongside the US Navy.
In June last year Australia commissioned twelve such aircraft for airborne electronic attack (AEA for its acronym in English) for 3,000 million dollars, becoming the first international user after the US Navy. The RAAF justifies the purchase of such sophisticated equipment as a tool to maintain technological superiority over its regional adversaries and to operate closely with the United States in the region. The twelve Growler will be based at Amberley but is not expected arrival in Australia to 2017 being expected to reach initial operational capability (IOC) in mid 2018 and full operational capability (FOC) in early 2020.
The EA-18G Growler is based on the F / A-18 Super Hornet RAAF has acquired the number of 24 units and in its mission to accompany electronic protection, disruption or jamming tactical. Replacing the Grumman EA-6B Prowler in the Navy and currently is the only plane of its kind in production. Advanced built the aircraft electronics let you perform electronic support missions in which it can act disturbing, misleading or denying the use of adversary electronic systems such as communications or radar. These teams are improved radios, communications systems capable of operating in a saturated electromagnetic space, satellite communications or disturbing high and low frequency of family ALQ mounted under the fuselage and the wings. Despite the advanced qualities of this aircraft Boeing currently has no new orders so if these fail, the assembly of the Growler will close and the Super Hornet at the end of 2017
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Back to bottling my Grenache