Stealth Fighter Down: $334,000,000 F-22 Raptor Was ‘Shot Down’ By Navy EA-18G Growler Electronic Warfare Plane
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On paper it was a mismatch. The F-22 brings stealth, supercruise, thrust vectoring, AESA radar, and sensor fusion built for first-look, first-shot, first-kill fights. The EA-18G is a two-seat Super Hornet variant with ALQ-218 receivers and ALQ-99 jamming pods, built to suppress enemy air defenses ra…
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Even the Germans who claimed "Raptor salad for lunch" conceded the F-22 dominates at long range. In their after-action report, Maj. Marco Gumbrecht said his Typhoons couldn't get within 20 miles of the Raptors without being targeted. Col.
On paper it was a mismatch. The F-22 brings stealth, supercruise, thrust vectoring, AESA radar, and sensor fusion built for first-look, first-shot, first-kill fights. The EA-18G is a two-seat Super Hornet variant with ALQ-218 receivers and ALQ-99 jamming pods, built to suppress enemy air defenses ra…
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