{"id":192657,"date":"2009-03-08T05:31:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-08T10:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/03\/08\/us-air-force-sacrificing-ecm-capabilities-to-push-f-22-f-35\/"},"modified":"2009-03-08T05:31:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-08T10:31:00","slug":"us-air-force-sacrificing-ecm-capabilities-to-push-f-22-f-35","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/03\/08\/us-air-force-sacrificing-ecm-capabilities-to-push-f-22-f-35\/","title":{"rendered":"US Air Force Sacrificing ECM Capabilities to Push F-22 &#038; F-35"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Air Force has yet canceled the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flightglobal.com\/articles\/2009\/03\/03\/323298\/us-air-force-cancels-sam-jamming-eb-52-for-second-time.html\">stand-off jammer EB-52<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you look at electronic warfare assets for the USAF, they have been starved for some time, and the USAF&#8217;s argument is that AESA radars can fill the gap on their stealth platforms.<\/p>\n<p>To my mind, what is going on here is that the Air Force is systematically defunding projects that might constitute a threat to the F-22, F-35, B-2, and NGB.<\/p>\n<p>If you possess sufficient EW capabilities to negate the newer integrated air defense systems, then you don&#8217;t need stealth, so those EW capabilities have to be killed, even if they, as in the case of the EB-52, make stealth more effective and more survivable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Air Force has yet canceled the stand-off jammer EB-52. If you look at electronic warfare assets for the USAF, they have been starved for some time, and the USAF&#8217;s argument is that AESA radars can fill the gap on their stealth platforms. To my mind, what is going on here is that the Air &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1008,982,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-defense-procurement","category-stupid","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192657"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}