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I was always under the impression that the EC-121, E-1, E-2, and E-3 were more of an AEW/AWACS type aircraft than a jamming platform?How about the EC-121, EB-57, EC-130, EA-3B, EA-6B, E-1, E-2, E-3, and the mighty EA-1 Skyraider?
We had a resident EC-121 detachment that flew ELINT missions around Fidel's worker's paradise, and we got visited by E-2s from time to time; they both said they had DECM aboard for last-ditch protection from fighter attack. They seemed to think that was pretty standard for their mission. All these aircraft were classified as "electronic warfare" aircraft, jamming or no. Passive ECM, or PECM, includes threat detection and warning equipment, which all these types had.I was always under the impression that the EC-121, E-1, E-2, and E-3 were more of an AEW/AWACS type aircraft than a jamming platform?
Hang an "E" pod on it, and any craft becomes an "E-bird". How about an EAC-47? "Puff with a pod".What about the 'Simulators' too; stuff from FEWSG, such as:
HEA-1F, EC-1A (S-2 Tracker mod), NC-121K, EP-3J, ERA-3B, EA-7L, EA-4F, EF-4B, EF-4J, EA-6A, EA-6B, FA-18A/B, etc...
Hang an "E" pod on it, and any craft becomes an "E-bird". How about an EAC-47? "Puff with a pod".
When threat detection and warning systems (passive ECM) became pretty near ubiquitous in tactical aircraft, they were all more or less E-birds.