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Cruelbreed
08-03-2009, 08:01 PM
http://l.yimg.com/g/images/spaceball.gif

http://l.yimg.com/g/images/spaceball.gif

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

http://l.yimg.com/g/images/spaceball.gif

Cruelbreed
08-03-2009, 08:05 PM
pics

mp5punk
08-03-2009, 09:06 PM
nice pics i love this aircraft

Cruelbreed
08-03-2009, 09:53 PM
Don't hesitate to add some more photos of it.

mp5punk
08-04-2009, 01:07 PM
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
08-04-2009, 01:53 PM
Cool. Nice pics. A friend of mine works on these. He's an aviation mechanic, in the Marine Corps.

nastyleg
08-04-2009, 03:45 PM
How much longer do they have since they are being replaced by the Growler

ghost
08-04-2009, 04:37 PM
How much longer do they have since they are being replaced by the Growler


Probably a year, or so.

nastyleg
08-04-2009, 04:41 PM
That soon huh thought they would phase them out over a couple of years

ghost
08-04-2009, 04:48 PM
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
08-04-2009, 04:50 PM
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
08-04-2009, 06:37 PM
Oh my god i know these things are beastley loud

Cruelbreed
08-04-2009, 07:11 PM
really F-18 air frame?

nastyleg
08-04-2009, 08:11 PM
really f-18 air frame?

fa-18g

Woodbutcher824
08-04-2009, 08:55 PM
fa-18g


Are there any pictures of it??

nastyleg
08-04-2009, 09:03 PM
wait one

nastyleg
08-04-2009, 09:04 PM
http://www.cybermodeler.com/aircraft/fa-18/ea-18g.shtml

nastyleg
08-04-2009, 09:06 PM
I stand corrected EA-18G

nastyleg
08-04-2009, 09:08 PM
http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/the-dewline/2009/02/growler-power-ea-18g-boasts-f-.html

nastyleg
08-04-2009, 09:09 PM
sorry for the links not that good at pasting photo's

Cruelbreed
08-04-2009, 09:46 PM
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
08-04-2009, 10:28 PM
Very interesting. Aerial dominance fighter shot down in training by an electronic warfare support aircraft..... Never saw that one coming.

nastyleg
08-05-2009, 12:46 AM
no shit thought the same thing.

silvertree
08-19-2009, 10:37 PM
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