No cats and flaps ...... back to F35B?

[JSFfan]

LO
Ok, so you accept that the f-35B has electronic attack, although it's not up to your standard.
You must have a good source because I can't find out much on the net about the f-35's multiple RF sensor arrays and how it all works

@Squirrel 41 the interviews with USMC pilots at www.sldinfo.com will give you the USMC CONOPS
this seems to be the USMC EW CONOPS

http://www.paxriverroost.org/MAGTF_EW__May_10.ppt.pdf

http://www.google.com.au/url?sa=t&rc...DDyJlGIWWfRWdg

Concept of Operations for Marine Air-Ground Task Force Electronic Warfare
4.2.1 Aviation EW.

From an aviation perspective the threats and the MAGTF‘s ability

to respond to them can be described by four basic categories:

Surface-to-Air, Air-to-Surface, Air-to-Air, and Surface-to-

Surface. In all cases the MAGTF EW airborne family of systems

must take into account an adversary‘s ability to affect our kill

chain with EW techniques. The need for advanced counter

technologies for these systems is of paramount importance for

MAGTF operations.

(1)
Surface-to-Air: In the 2016 – 2020 timeframe, the MAGTF can

expect to encounter advanced networked digital based systems,

and legacy platforms employed by state and non-state players.

Both current and future systems will be leveraged to address the

conventional information used by integrated air defense system

IADS nodes consisting of early warning, ground control intercept

(GCI), and target acquisition (TA) radars, as well as adversary

communications. This capability will mainly reside in manned

CONOPS for MAGTF EWsystems such as EA-6B ICAP III. To the greatest extent possible

any future EA-6B development and follow on Group 4 UAS

development should be tailored to EWBM capabilities including

the ability to act as a node in the EWBM network. It should be

noted that the F-35B will play a role in EW and EWBM; however,

it alone will not replace ICAP III EMS coverage. As procurement

of UAS platforms with interchangeable software programmable

payloads increases and the EA-6B continues to sundown, this

mission set will migrate away from the EA-6B to a future Group 4

UAS and F-35B. UAS platforms will afford the MAGTF commander

both sufficiency and persistence in his AOR, while the F-35B

will provide TACAIR a majority of its ability for deep strike

and to degrade and deny the Surface-to-Air threat.