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Posted by Tom Kwiatkowski Sr. - 309C
on 11/2/2009, 1:13 pm
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From airforce-magazine.com
Age Factors: The Air Force's Fleet Viability Board is engaged in assessing the higher-than-anticipated wear and tear the operations in Southwest Asia may have placed on the service's EC-130H Compass Call electronic warfare platform, reports Flight Global. The assessment is due in January. Col. Stephen Brown, chief of electronic warfare requirements, told Flight Global that USAF's 14 EC-130H communications jamming aircraft have flown at more than double the expected rate. (Compass Call sorties for Afghanistan surpassed 2,000 this summer; those over Iraq were at 3,000 earlier this year.) We reported earlier this month that the Air Force is hoping to pair with the Navy in its new EA-18G Growler. Maj. Gen. David Scott, Air Staff requirements director, also said the service is pursuing, as yet unidentified, stand-in capabilities for the airborne electronic attack mission. It has abandoned, once and for all, the notion of a B-52 stand-off jammer.
FlightGlobal Report:
http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2009/10/28/334088/usaf-probes-structural-viability-of-ec-130h-compass-call.html
Compass Call Unit Completes 2,000 Sorties:
http://www.airforce-magazine.com/DRArchive/Pages/2009/July%202009/July%2013%202009/CompassCallUnitCompletes2,000Sorties.aspx
Seeking Growler Backseat, No BUFF SOJ:
http://www.airforce-magazine.com/Features/newtech/Pages/box102109growler.aspx
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