Originally Posted by
Toadstool
I don’t suppose you could call the EC130 Compass Call a “tactical” EW aircraft but it performs much the same role as the growler.
Actually that is exactly what Compass Call is and was designed for. I flew them for four years, and while we were continually tasked to perform “collection” missions, it was the SEAD IAD rollback of specifically comms and IFF/SIF, RSBN,SVOD nav that made it a tactical platform. The “endless wars” changed all of that.