please stop dancing, you made a big claim repeatedly through this ""The USN state that within 5 years the stealth capability of the F-35 will be insufficient to penetrate modern AD systems without EW support"
now either show this USN statement or retract your claim
Well
Tom Burbage as the Lockheed Martin F-35 VP for one, as well as being the one saying that the F-18G would be obsolete within 5 years. He proclaimed the need for the NGJ and that the fact that it would be carried by the F-35.
I note LM was gone quiet on that front since F-35/NGJ integration was been indefinitely postponed. Unsurprisingly really, when you consider how it impacts the stealth signature.....
it's a running media theme of australia doesn't need growlers and the $1.5 billion will be wasted
I also think you may have a comprehension issue, Tom didn't say what you said he did [and he's not a top dog in USN],He didn't "proclaimed the need for the NGJ and that the fact that it would be carried by the F-35." there isn't a quote from Tom in the whole story.
in fact the reporter is making the claim that the 18g would be redundant in 2023 [2018 + 5 years] hence the title "Growler obsolete in 5 years" and then added, which seems to be paraphrased or misunderstood something Tom said whilst in Australia...the reporter said "the f-35 was one of the planes that would be able to carry the next generation jammer",,,as we both know that isn't in the planning
Mr Smith [our Minister of Defence]said.
''The purpose of the Growler, of course, is it provides a capacity to jam the communications system of an adversary … jam the communications system of a group of terrorists as well as a traditional adversary.''