85% capability, I didn't see barrage jammer mentioned..it's time you jumped to 5th gen thinking CM
any high RF like barrage jamming will be offboard on UAV's and MALD-J
as we talked last time on this subject, the marines may need the pod till the ew is mature from block 3F or I speculate that it may be a coms jammer for CAS that may or may not be in a later block
there was also an interview that gave it another 15%
http://www.airforce-magazine.com/Mag...112fighter.pdf
O’Bryan certainly couldn’t go into the subject of the fighter’s EW/EA suite in any detail, or the way it might coordinate with specialized aircraft such as the E-3 Airborne Warning and Control System, RC-135 Rivet Joint, E-8 JSTARS, or EA-18G Growler jammer aircraft.
He did say, however, that F-35 requirements call for it to go into battle with “no support whatever” from these systems.
“I don’t know a pilot alive who wouldn’t want whatever support he can get,” O’Bryan acknowledged. “But the requirements that we were given to build the airplane didn’t have any support functions built in.
In other words, we had to find the target, ... penetrate the anti-access [defenses], ... ID the target, and ... destroy it by ourselves.
Asked about the Air Force’s plans,
O’Bryan answered with several rhetorical
questions: “Are they investing
in a big jammer fleet? Are they buying
[EA-18G] Growlers?” Then he said,
“There’s a capability here.”
O’Bryan went on to say that the electronic
warfare capability on the F-35A
“is as good as, or better than, [that of
the] fourth generation airplanes specifically
built for that purpose.” The
F-35’s “sensitivity” and processing
power—a great deal of it automated—
coupled with the sensor fusion of
internal and offboard systems, give the
pilot unprecedented situational awareness
as well as the ability to detect,
locate, and target specific systems that
need to be disrupted.
When it comes to electronic combat,
the F-35A will make possible a new
operational concept, O’Bryan said.
The goal is not to simply suppress
enemy air defenses. The goal will be
to destroy them.
Oh remember the Liberal parliamentarian Jensen who was using the APA rubbish slagging the f-35 and how Labour and the ADF are fools?
well the liberal defense guy Senator Johnston, has made a statement..slagging Labour for delaying the order
"Senator Johnston gave strong support to the beleaguered Joint Strike Fighter, which has suffered schedule and cost blowouts, and
criticised the government for delaying its purchase decisions in relation to the plane. "It's a vital major project and a great feather in (former defence minister) Robert Hill's cap for having this strategic foresight more than 10 years ago," he said.