Posted on 04/30/2014 11:57:36 AM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
I feel obliged to point out, however, that the EF-111 carried far more fuel, could go supersonic, and carried 10 transmitters internally with an internal electrical power supply. Anyone who has flown in a Prowler and struggled to get more than one pod out of three up and running can appreciate the importance of not using a RAT.
DOT&E says it is a problem for the “Growler” too: “The EA-18G also exhibited low reliability, due primarily to the frequent failure of the legacy ALQ-99 jamming pods and their newly designed pod interface units.”
Oh well. The USAF gave up on EW a long time ago...
I wonder how much Boeing paid for this “article”?
58 of the jets at a cost of $24 billion over their lifetime...
Whoa nelly! That is way too much. Are these planes gold plated?
This isn’t an admittance that the F-35 has flaws, this is a sales pitch for people to buy the F-18.
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