EA-6b Prowler

[Cruelbreed]

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http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1344/882065299_21a98338dd.jpg

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[Cruelbreed]

pics

[mp5punk]

nice pics i love this aircraft

[Cruelbreed]

Don't hesitate to add some more photos of it.

[mp5punk]

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/aircraft/images/ea6_1.jpg
http://ve.ida.org/rtoc/images/ea_6b.jpg

I love all the old fashoned aircraft like the cobra, a10, prowler and i hate how there replacing them with UAVs when im done with highschool theres gonna bo no apaches left to fly =[

[ghost]

Cool. Nice pics. A friend of mine works on these. He's an aviation mechanic, in the Marine Corps.

[nastyleg]

How much longer do they have since they are being replaced by the Growler

[ghost]

How much longer do they have since they are being replaced by the Growler


Probably a year, or so.

[nastyleg]

That soon huh thought they would phase them out over a couple of years

[ghost]

That soon huh thought they would phase them out over a couple of years


Well, I know that it's in active trials right now. The airframe design is basically just an F-18F Superhornet. It can't take that long. Only difference is the electronics-jamming systems.

But then again, bureaucracy never ceases to amaze.

[Mel]

I live in the flight path of Offutt AFB and every once in a while one of those things fly over. Have to be one of the loudest planes around.

[mp5punk]

Oh my god i know these things are beastley loud

[Cruelbreed]

really F-18 air frame?

[nastyleg]

really f-18 air frame?

fa-18g

[Woodbutcher824]

fa-18g


Are there any pictures of it??

[nastyleg]

wait one

[nastyleg]

http://www.cybermodeler.com/aircraft/fa-18/ea-18g.shtml

[nastyleg]

I stand corrected EA-18G

[nastyleg]

http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/the-dewline/2009/02/growler-power-ea-18g-boasts-f-.html

[nastyleg]

sorry for the links not that good at pasting photo's

[Cruelbreed]

Cool tidbit from one of the links you posted about an F-22 kill


Today was Electronic Awareness Warfare Appreciation Day at Andrews AFB. The base hosted a sort of petting zoo for high-tech jamming systems. I noticed a Boeing EA-18G parked on the side, and struck up a conversation with the pilot.

As we chatted about interference cancellation systems, I couldn't help but notice an odd decal decorating the side of the fuselage. I asked the pilot: What's that aircraft decal on the fuselage?

"That's an F-22," he said.

http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/the-dewline/assets_c/2009/02/ea18g_f22kill-thumb-445x333.jpg (http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/the-dewline/ea18g_f22kill.jpg)
Well, why is it there?

"Because this is the EA-18G that killed an F-22," he explained.

Um, really?

Alas, after that bombshell, the conversation quickly dried up. I did learn the EA-18G kill was courtesy of a well-timed AIM-120 AMRAAM shot. And I learned the simulated combat exercise took place at Nellis AFB. How the EA-18G escort jammer got the shot, and whether its jamming system played a role in the incident were not questions the pilot was prepared to answer.

For the spotters, the aircraft pictured above is EA-1, the first of two Lot 27 F/A-18Fs converted into flying prototypes for the EA-18G program.

[ghost]

Very interesting. Aerial dominance fighter shot down in training by an electronic warfare support aircraft..... Never saw that one coming.

[nastyleg]

no shit thought the same thing.

[silvertree]

All you have to do to shoot down steath aircraft is to get them inside the 'sweet spot' in your radar, i.e get them close enough to your radar and it won't matter how steathy they are. Just ask the SA-6 guys that shot down the F-117 in Kosovo