When I first come across this photo I think it was a raw classified starfighter being tested by the Navy and Boeing Phantom Works in a mystical undergroundanechoic chamberin the Moon . Then I realized it had the shape of something closer to Earth : It looked like an F-18 but it is not . It ’s an EA-18 G Growler , a variance of the F / A-18F Super Hornet Block II that is not plan tokill kill faster faster , but for airborne electronic attack . Now polish off its testing phase as it get under one’s skin ready to enter action next action , the EA-18 G will replace the current and aging EA-6B Prowler . With its two F414 - GE-400 engine , totalling 44,000 - lb of cartel , it ’s a much more powerful beast than the 4 - seater Prowler . The EA-18 G ’s mission is to block the foe internet from the air , using a variety of systems installed on a palette in the hit man bay and in two wingtip pods . The remaining nine weapon system stations are useable for other seedpod arrest the electronics necessary for repulsion jamming , escort jamming , time critical strike , and communications countermeasures . In the cockpit , it has an active electronically scanned array radar , which is capable of pinpoint the target area that need to be jammed ( or destroyed using specialised radio - bound projectile ) with greater accuracy than ever before . In other words , to give messiness with the Wi - Fi web of all those terrorist experience in their desert caves .
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