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Old February 14th 04, 03:28 PM
Henry J. Cobb
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Default Questions about the Growler (EA-18G)

http://www.newsday.com/business/prin...business-print
The Navy's current fleet of EA-6B Prowlers jam enemy radar by
transmitting electronic signals over broad frequency ranges to "blind"
hostile radars. The ICAP-III, in comparison, uses software to rapidly
focus its jamming energy on any frequency band being used by an enemy
surface-to-air missile system.

Can the one guy in the back seat handle all of this, even with the
fancy software?

Will Growlers operate in pairs to search out and jam radars?

And will the JSF be used as a weasel to "HARM" (with JSOW) the radars
the Growlers are jamming?

http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/s...90300-JSOW.htm
All JSOW variants incorporate global positioning system/inertial
navigation system (GPS/INS) guidance and an aerodynamically efficient
airframe to allow delivery aircraft to remain outside the lethal reach
of enemy medium range surface to air missiles (SAMs).

-HJC