{"id":195024,"date":"2008-08-02T09:21:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-02T14:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/08\/02\/is-there-pentagon-electronic-warfare-deficit\/"},"modified":"2008-08-02T09:21:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-02T14:21:00","slug":"is-there-pentagon-electronic-warfare-deficit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/08\/02\/is-there-pentagon-electronic-warfare-deficit\/","title":{"rendered":"Is There Pentagon Electronic Warfare Deficit?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Trimble is reporting that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flightglobal.com\/blogs\/the-dewline\/2008\/07\/fixing-the-pentagons-electroni.html\">the Pentagon is concerned that its current generation of EW gear will not be able to cope with later models of Russian SAMs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The S-300 and S-400 systems (SA-12, 20, 21, 23) have the potential even the existing ALQ-99, which is carried by dedicated jammers, the EA6B Prowler and F\/A-18G Growler.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure how much this is Pentagon budget sucking, and how much is real needs myself.<\/p>\n<p>He also posted a neat Youtube (it&#8217;s about an hour long) on the history of electronic warfare in the Silicon Valley:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/hFSPHfZQpIQ&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/hFSPHfZQpIQ&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Trimble is reporting that the Pentagon is concerned that its current generation of EW gear will not be able to cope with later models of Russian SAMs. The S-300 and S-400 systems (SA-12, 20, 21, 23) have the potential even the existing ALQ-99, which is carried by dedicated jammers, the EA6B Prowler and F\/A-18G &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1008,1025,1027],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-defense-procurement","category-technology","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195024"}],"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=195024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195024\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}