[PIF]

Problem is that defense industries have become one or 2 in order to minimize stragic growth at the need to maximize profits as can be seen in the air force!

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As can be seen by the USAF wanting to cancel further orders for the F-15EX, limiting it to only 90 examples.

[major_gaff]

more to your point, the Navy and Marine Corps just retired the EA-6B
Prowler in the last 5 years. The Jamming system was the ALQ-99...it was
designed in the 70's and aging in the '80s when I worked on it. The EA-18
Growler (clever, no?) uses the ALQ-227/ICAP III that was developed in the
ought's. The literature says that it is a superior jamming system...hopefully
we will never have to find out.