EA-18G & F/A-18E/F

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EA-18G & F/A-18E/F
« em: Fevereiro 11, 2004, 10:05:06 pm »
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Navy Awards Boeing $9.6 Billion in Super Hornet and EA-18G Contracts
ST. LOUIS, December 29, 2003 – The U.S. Navy has awarded Boeing [NYSE: BA] a multiyear procurement contract valued at $8.6 billion for the production of an additional 210 F/A-18 Super Hornets and a $1 billion contract for system design and development (SDD) of the EA-18G airborne electronic attack aircraft.

Under the terms of the multiyear contract, the Navy will purchase 42 aircraft in each of the fiscal years 2005 through 2009. The agreement provides the Navy with the flexibility to increase the quantity of aircraft on order by as many as six aircraft per year. Deliveries for aircraft purchased in the second multiyear will begin in fiscal year 2007.

The 5-year SDD program for the EA-18G runs from FY04 until early FY09 and encompasses all laboratory, ground test, and flight tests from component level testing through full-up EA-18G weapons system performance flight-testing.

“This contract will keep the lines running and keep St. Louis working,” said Sen. Christopher “Kit” Bond (R-Mo.). “This is great news for the workers and their families this holiday season. The F/A-18 Super Hornet platform continues to serve as a model procurement program, consistently producing aircraft ahead of schedule and under budget. Pound for pound and dollar for dollar, the Super Hornet is the best tactical aircraft the Navy operates.”

This is the second multiyear contract for the Super Hornet program, which has already produced 170 of the aircraft for the U.S. Navy. The first contract calls for the production of up to 222 Super Hornets and ends in 2004.

“The multiyear contract and the development contract for the electronic attack variant ensure that the U.S. Navy has the most capable, versatile and affordable fighter aircraft well into the next century,” said John Lockard, senior vice president, Naval Systems, for Boeing. “These contracts continue to evolve the Super Hornet to latest technology and benefit our U.S. Navy customer, the taxpayer, our suppliers, and our Boeing workforce.”

Rick Smith, president of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers Local 837, said the contract was a sign of the government’s confidence in the Boeing workforce.

“Congratulations to the men and women who make up Boeing St. Louis’s fine workforce,” Smith said. “These contracts are the U.S. government’s stamp of approval on their terrific, high-quality work. This work helps extend the site’s distinguished heritage of performance on contracts, and helps lay the foundation for a bright future in St. Louis.”

F/A-18 E/F Super Hornet

U.S. Navy Capt. B.D. Gaddis, NAVAIR F/A-18 program manager, said one of the F/A-18 program’s great strengths is the stability of its procurement accounts.

“Multi-year procurements have driven stability and increased cost efficiencies with the program,” Gaddis said. “The U.S. Navy realized around $750 million in cost savings from the first Super Hornet Multi-Year contract. In the second Multi-Year contract we've realized just over $1 billion in savings. I would call that a pretty good return on investment. I think we've built a lot of trust between NAVAIR, our program sponsors, OSD and Congress with these types of contracts. We need to keep it going.”

The Super Hornet program is introducing advanced technologies and capabilities that will provide the U.S. Navy and Joint Forces Commanders advanced connectivity and warfighting capability. Those technologies include the Active Electronically Scanned Array radar and the Advance Crew Station, which are in flight test. The Advanced Target Forward Looking Infrared system and the Joint Helmet Mounted Cueing System were used in Operation Iraqi Freedom.

EA-18G

The EA-18G will provide the warfighter with abundant operational flexibility. It can carry up to five ALQ-99 jamming pods and will typically add two AIM-120 self-defense missiles and two AGM-88 High Speed Anti-Radiation (HARM) missiles.

“While developing the EA-18G concept and configuration, our design team maintained as much of the inherent growth capacity in the F/A-18F as possible,” Lockard said. “The result will be a platform designed to take advantage of the latest airborne electronic attack and networking technologies, enabling significant improvements in threat suppression.”

Upon initial fleet introduction the EA-18G will be capable of self-protection, freeing up dedicated escort aircraft for strike and other missions. It will be capable of rapidly locating and destroying surface-to-air missiles.

In addition to standoff and escort jamming missions, speed, maneuverability and advanced systems will enable the EA-18G to perform time critical strike mission targeting support. By combining two proven systems, the Boeing F/A-18F and the Northrop Grumman ALQ-218(V)2 receiver, the U.S. Navy will maximize the benefit of ongoing investments, while allowing for an initial operational capability by 2009.

A Boeing-led industry team builds the Super Hornet. Boeing builds the forward fuselage and wings and conducts final assembly. Northrop Grumman Corp. is the principal airframe subcontractor, supplying the center and aft fuselage and the principal electronic combat system supplier for the EA-18G. General Electric Co. produces the engines, and Raytheon Co. manufactures the aircraft’s radar.

A unit of The Boeing Company, Integrated Defense Systems is one of the world's largest space and defense businesses. Headquartered in St. Louis, Boeing Integrated Defense Systems is a $25 billion business. It provides systems solutions to its global military, government and commercial customers. It is a leading provider of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance; the world's largest military aircraft manufacturer; the world's largest satellite manufacturer and a leading provider of space-based communications; the primary systems integrator for U.S. missile defense; NASA's largest contractor; and a global leader in launch services.

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Pois...
« Responder #1 em: Fevereiro 12, 2004, 09:58:40 am »
A saga do F18E é mais uma demonstração como o "complexo militar-industrial" domina a situação. Ao que os americanos chegaram. Sabiam que as vibrações desses aviões destroem os misseis que carregam com algumas horas de voo cativo? Em metade do tempo dos outros?

Também viram a notícia que o programa F22 e o Comanche estão em risco de acabar?
Era bem feito!
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« Responder #2 em: Fevereiro 12, 2004, 03:46:19 pm »
Os americanos não aprenderam mesmo com a saga dos Hornet, e continuam a fazer os mesmos disparates  :?

Os argumentos para defender o Growler são completamente falhados.

Afirma-se que, ao contrário do Prowler, baseado numa aeronave de ataque pouco manobrável, os Growler derivam do Super Hornet, que é um verdadeiro caça - 1º erro - o Hornet original era bem mais manobrável que o Super Hornet... e de qualquer maneira, alguém acredita que um Super Hornet com pods de ECM, mísseis HARM, tanques extra de combustível e ainda mísseis ar-ar, se consegue defender de um caça inimigo?? Isto quer dizer que vai ter que ter uma escolta, tal como os Prowler...

Outro argumento maravilhoso - o Growler é mais rápido, logo consegue escapar a uma possível ameaça, e acompanhar melhor as aeronaves de ataque - 2º erro - o Super Hornet é conhecido como uma aeronave com um alcance muito reduzido; juntem-lhe todo o equipamento de missão, e a velocidade desapareceu (numa configuração "limpa" consegue atingir Mach 1,8, mas com todo aquele peso, se atingir Mach 1 já vai com muita sorte - e mesmo assim qualquer caça com menos de 30 anos o consegue apanhar); e depois, o piloto bem pode tentar acelarar, mas aí vai precisar de reabastecimento aéreo para acompanhar os outros aviões, porque o alcance diminui ainda mais...

Eles não aprendem mesmo...  :twisted:  )

Mas deixa-os estar... O disparate (e o dinheiro) é deles :roll:

Abraços
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Ah, a Boeing...
« Responder #3 em: Fevereiro 12, 2004, 05:20:03 pm »
Presentemente, a Boeing deverá ser um dos grandes vendedores de banha-da-cobra que existem. Aliás já foram condenados por fraude. è o que dar colocarem gestores espertalhaços, daqueles que são cada vez mais comuns por esse mundo fora.
O interessante é que lerem os comentários dos militares responsáveis por esses equipamentos defeitusos e extremamente caros eles dizem:

"Estamos muito entusiasmados com as capacidades transformacionais que este equipamento nos trará."

Os americanos estão cada vez mais fracos graças à sua própria ganância. Os programas são atrasados eternamente para manter as equipas de R&D. Material simples e fiável não dá lucros. Simples porque é barato e fiável porque não precisa de manutenção.
Não vão a lado nenhum assim.

Peço-vos para lerem o "About face" de David Hackworth sobre os verdadeiros interesses dos militares de alta patente. Leiam que vão reconhecer muitos padrões de comportamento que julgávamos apenas... pátrios.

Admiro muito os EUA, mas não me enganem: o rei vai nú!
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« Responder #4 em: Fevereiro 12, 2004, 06:55:47 pm »
realmente o F18E/F Super Hornet é o saco de pancada de muita gente  :D  :D  :D  :? O Super Hornet como caça será uma anedota.

Aliás tenho a impressão que a úncia verdadeira vantagem do Super  Hornet sobre os modelos mais antigos é ( além de possuírem equipamento electrónico muito mais avançado) serem capazes de aterrar nos porta-aviões com um maior peso de armamento não utilizado.   :shock: e isto pro centenas de milhões de dólares...
I hope that you accept Nature as It is - absurd.

R.P. Feynman
 

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Re: EA-18G & F/A-18E/F
« Responder #5 em: Julho 30, 2015, 07:53:15 pm »
 

Good  video about the EA-18 "Growler"  



MSF15-0029 Australian Growler's first flight at Boeing Aircraft Delivery Center, St. Louis, Missouri

Australia begins receiving Growlers  

http://www.janes.com/article/53309/aust ... g-growlers

 
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• The RAAF on 29 July received the first EA-18G Growler during a rollout ceremony.  

• Australia is the first and only international customer for the electronic attack aircraft.

 Boeing rolled out the first Royal Australian Air Force  (RAAF) Growlers on 29 July during a ceremony at the company's St. Louis facility, making Australia the first  country outside the US to obtain the airborne electronic attack  (AEA) aircraft.

The RAAF wants the capability to maintain an edge over regional adversaries, according to Air Marshal Geoffrey Brown, the RAAF's former chief. "We will always pursue a technological edge over any regional  competitor", he said during the ceremony.

 A derivative of the F/A 18F Super Hornet, the EA-18G provides tactical jamming and electronic protection.

The 12 Growlers ordered for about  $3 billion will enhance the RAAF's fleet of 24 Super Hornets.  (...)

There are no other plans to sell the aircraft to other international customers at this time  (...)
 

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Re: EA-18G & F/A-18E/F
« Responder #6 em: Julho 31, 2015, 09:37:34 am »

A US Navy VAQ-141 Shadowhawks cruise video about the EA-18G. Part 1


Part 2.


Part 3.