Nye fly

Vel, ikke helt ny, men ny i mange sammenhenger. Det kan virke som om denne erstatter E-7 som liksom ikke får fotfese i USA. (Red.)

 Defense Watch: EA-37s in Wargame, Laser Use OK'd, Army ADOC, UAS Award, FMD Chief Back

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More EA-37Bs? The Air Force’s EA-37B saw its first combat use in Operation Epic Fury, according to U.S. Central Command, and the service’s fiscal 2027 budget requests $660 million for three more EA-37B Compass Call electronic warfare aircraft by BAE Systems and L3Harris Technologies. While the Air Force wants 10 EA-37Bs, the companies and lawmakers, including Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.), want a buy of a dozen more. The Air Force’s fiscal 2026 budget requested no funding, but lawmakers provided $474 million for two aircraft. In a Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies wargame, set in 2035 against China, the two “blue teams” underutilized EA-37B and Boeing’s E-7 Wedgetail aircraft initially, “as they were very concerned that they would lose too many of these high value aircraft too early in the fight,” says Mark Gunzinger, Mitchell’s director of future concepts and capability assessment. Ten EA-37Bs is less than half the number needed in a China scenario, he says.