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🇺🇸 EA-18G Growler
Air · Boeing (ABD) — EW sistemleri: Raytheon (NGJ) / Northrop Grumman (ALQ-218) · 2009
The EA-18G Growler is a Super Hornet-based electronic-warfare and SEAD aircraft; with ALQ-218 receivers and Next-Generation Jammer pods it blinds enemy radars and, with anti-radiation missiles, suppresses air defenses so strike packages can get through.
Specifications
- Type: Carrier-based electronic warfare / SEAD aircraft
- Manufacturer / Origin: Boeing · USA
- Dimensions: Length 18.31 m · wingspan 13.62 m (incl. pod) · height 4.88 m
- Weight: Empty 15,011 kg · max takeoff 29,964 kg
- Engine: 2 × General Electric F414-GE-400 turbofans, each ~98 kN (with afterburner)
- Speed: Mach 1.8 — ~1,900 km/h (1,030 knots at 40,000 ft)
- Range: Combat radius ~722 km · ferry range ~3,330 km
- EW systems: AN/ALQ-218(V)2 receiver · AN/ALQ-99 jammer pod (→ new AN/ALQ-249 NGJ-MB)
- Armament: AGM-88 HARM anti-radar missile · AIM-120 AMRAAM (self-defense)
- Crew: 2 (pilot + Electronic Warfare Officer / EWO)
- Service year: 2009 (US Navy) — replaced EA-6B Prowler
Beats: EA-6B Prowler (ABD) — neredeyse iki kat hız, dijital ALQ-218 alıcı ve kendini koruma AMRAAM yeteneği ile selefini her açıdan geçti, Su-34 (Rusya) — Growler özel ALQ-99/NGJ jammer mimarisiyle adanmış bir bastırma platformu; Su-34 öncelikle vurucu uçak, EH'si ikincil, J-16D (Çin) — Growler savaş-kanıtlı NGJ-MB ve olgun taşıyıcı entegrasyonuyla operasyonel olgunlukta önde
Loses to: F-35 (ABD) — düşük gözlemlenebilirlik ve geniş füzyon sensörüyle iz/hayatta kalma açısından Growler'ı geçer; Growler'ın radar kesiti büyüktür, NGAD / 6. nesil (ABD) — gelecekteki menzilli, sinyal-yönetimli platformlar uzun-erim EH'de Growler'ı geride bırakacak, Su-57 (Rusya) — stealth gövdesiyle hasım hava savunmasına Growler'dan çok daha düşük imzayla yaklaşır
The Growler is the West's primary airborne EW/SEAD platform: it detects, jams and (via HARM) kills the radars of an integrated air defense system. Built on the F/A-18F airframe it keeps fighter-like performance, trading the gun for jamming pods. Electronic attack alone cannot defeat a 5th-gen escort fighter or a frequency-agile, networked defense, so it works as part of a package.
Related systems
Same manufacturer (Boeing (ABD) — EW sistemleri: Raytheon (NGJ) / Northrop Grumman (ALQ-218)): E-7T Barış Kartalı, AH-64 Apache, F/A-18 Super Hornet, Boeing E-3 Sentry, Boeing KC-46 Pegasus, C-17 Globemaster III, Quickstrike-ER
Related systems (Air): KAAN, Bayraktar KIZILELMA, ANKA-3, Bayraktar TB2, Bayraktar Akıncı, Vyriy OPTO 10, Skydagger, AKBABA, GÖKTUĞ (Gökdoğan/Bozdoğan), SOM
