AESA Electronic Attack Hype -- ELP Defens(c)e Blog
There are days when I look at the Aviation Week website or printed edition and want to barf when I see yet another David Fulghum article on electronic attack. I like the guy but it gets annoying after awhile seeing all of his hype of AESA being able to do electronic (obviously in-band (X-band)) attack when they haven’t figured out sustained power output and cooling.
Oh well; anything for an article.
Although the F/A-18F has impressed, RAAF officials are disappointed the Super Hornet’s AESA technology remains unable to perform electronic attack missions in the X-band of the electromagnetic spectrum, Roberton says.
“There are some things the radar does which are not as far along the proposed flight plan that they have as we had hoped,” he says. But “it’s still better than anything we got”.
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