{"id":192723,"date":"2009-02-28T07:40:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-28T12:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/02\/28\/well-that-makes-3-f-22-shootdowns-in-excercises\/"},"modified":"2009-02-28T07:40:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-28T12:40:00","slug":"well-that-makes-3-f-22-shootdowns-in-excercises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/02\/28\/well-that-makes-3-f-22-shootdowns-in-excercises\/","title":{"rendered":"Well, That Makes 3 F-22 Shootdowns in Excercises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img5.imageshack.us\/img5\/8809\/ea18gea14641604.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" width=\"375\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img5.imageshack.us\/img5\/2787\/ea18gf22kill4648185.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" width=\"375\" \/><br \/>Stephen Trimble had a walkaround at Electronic Warfare Appreciation Day at Andrews AFB, and he noticed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flightglobal.com\/blogs\/the-dewline\/2009\/02\/growler-power-ea-18g-boasts-f-.html\">noticed this EA-18G &#8220;Growler&#8221; electronic warfare aircraft<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Look at the bottom picture:  the pilot bagged an F-22 in exercises at Nellis.<\/p>\n<p>This does raise an interesting question, how does an aircraft largely dedicated to electronic warfare bag what is supposed to be the hottest jet out there.<\/p>\n<p>I think that it comes down to the fact that the F-22 had to get close to burn through the jamming, and once it did, its size, the aircraft is roughly as large as an F-14 Tomcat, made rather more visible to the Mark 1 eyeball than the F\/A-18.<\/p>\n<p>This raises an interesting question as to the effectiveness of the aircraft in a heavily jammed environment: will this require the Raptor to get close enough to its target that it is then in a visual conflict, where it will be <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">more<\/span> visible than its opposition.<\/p>\n<p>Hrm&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Trimble had a walkaround at Electronic Warfare Appreciation Day at Andrews AFB, and he noticed noticed this EA-18G &#8220;Growler&#8221; electronic warfare aircraft. Look at the bottom picture: the pilot bagged an F-22 in exercises at Nellis. This does raise an interesting question, how does an aircraft largely dedicated to electronic warfare bag what is &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1002,1064,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-good-writing","category-media","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192723"}],"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=192723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}