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Issue 330: Full Spectrum
Growler rollout heralds RAAF’s new electronic attack era
It will be a magnificent addition to the Australian Defence Force’s joint operations, and I predict it will have one of the biggest strategic effects for the ADF since the introduction of the F-111 in the 1970s,” newly-retired Chief of Air Force Air Marshal Geoff Brown, representing his successor Air Marshal Leo Davies, told the rollout ceremony for the first RAAF EA- 18G Growler.
The rollout of EA-18G A46-301 at Boeing’s St Louis facility on July 29 marks a new era for the RAAF, symbolising the introduction into service of an entirely new electronic attack capability, the utility and effectiveness of which – its strategic effect – seems to be little grasped outside, and even to a degree within, the ADF.
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