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The ALQ-218 is mainly featured aboard the U.S. Navy's Boeing EA-18G Growler aircraft, [3] [4] which has replaced the EA-6B Prowler in the U.S. Navy. [5] The ALQ-218 was previously on the Grumman EA-6B Prowler, which the Improved Capability III ALQ-218 was modified and integrated into the EA-18G's Airborne Electronic Attack (AEA) system. [6]
The AN/ALQ-99 system on EA-6B Prowler Aircraft. The EA-6B in the foreground carries 3 under-wing jamming pods for transmitting and a single fixed pod on its tail for receiving. The ALQ-99 is an airborne integrated jamming system designed and manufactured by EDO Corporation. Receiver equipment and antennas are mounted in a fin-tip pod while ...
An EA-6B Prowler lands on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77). In 2007, it was reported that the Prowler had been used in counter improvised explosive device operations in the conflict in Afghanistan for several years by jamming remote detonation devices such as garage door openers or cellular telephones. [33]
The system was first tested in 1984, by the Patuxent River division of the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division, in Maryland. In 1985 an AN/SPN-46(V)1 system was placed on the aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy. In 1986 and 1987 OPEVALs were held for the radar system. In 1987 the Navy approved the system for "full automatic control from ...
The Growler has more than 90% in common with the standard Super Hornet, sharing airframe, Raytheon AN/APG-79 AESA radar and weapon systems such as the AN/AYK-22 stores management system. Most of the dedicated airborne electronic attack equipment is mounted on a plate in the space that used to house the internal 20 mm cannon and on the wingtips.
AN/SPN - Water Radar Navigation Systems Designation Purpose/Description Location/Used By Manufacturer AN/SPN-10: Shipboard automatic landing system: Bell Aircraft Corporation under Bureau of Ships (BuShips) contract [190] AN/SPN-35: Automatic landing system radar: AN/SPN-42: Automatic carrier landing system radar: AN/SPN-43: Air marshalling ...
AN/APN-236 development of AN/APN-233 Doppler radar system by Teledyne; AN/APN-237 K u band terrain-following radar by Texas Instruments part of AN/AAQ-13; AN/APN-239 improvement of AN/APN-234 weather and navigational radar (Model RDR-1400C) Bendix Corporation for HH-60G, MH-60G; AN/APN-240 improved AN/APN-169 station keeping radar system by ...
The Long Range Discrimination Radar (LRDR) in Alaska is part of the United States's Ground-Based Midcourse Defense anti-ballistic missile system. The main contractor is Lockheed Martin , under a US$ 784 million contract from the Missile Defense Agency in October 2015.