Navy-Air Force plan to modernize electronic warfare is 'unconvincing'.
National Defense › Vol. 87 Nbr. 587, October 2002
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Navy-Air Force plan to modernize electronic warfare is 'unconvincing'.
The Navy and the Air Force are working to merge divergent nation's electronic-jamming air-visions on how to modernize the craft. Despite differences in their approaches to fielding a new generation of jammers, high-level Pentagon leaders told the services to work out a compromise, because time is running out on the Prowler.
The Prowler, the Defense Department's only tactical radar-jamming airplane, is experiencing a much higher rate of use than was ever planned. It is now the oldest airplane in the U.S. Navy, with an average age of 20.3 years. The Navy EA-6B Prowler's primary mission is to protect strike aircraft by electronically disrupting or destroying enemy radars and communications. Since the airplane flies strike-support missions for the Marines and Air Force, the replac...See the full content of this document
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