Thursday, 23 December 2021

Retrofit kit for US Navy and Royal Australian Air Force Super Hornet and Growler satellite communications systems

Kevin Martin


Kit di retrofit per sistemi di comunicazione satellitare dei Super Hornet e Growler dell'US Navy e Royal Australian Air Force

from AURELIO GIANSIRACUSA

DECEMBER 22, 2021

The Boeing Company obtains an amendment worth approximately $ 9.5 million from the United States Department of Defense, against a previously awarded contract, to provide 94 retrofit kits for satellite communications systems, including 82 for the US Navy (32 for EA-18G aircraft; 25 for F / A-18E aircraft and 25 for F / A-18F aircraft) and 12 for Royal Australian Air Force AEA-18G aircraft. 

USAF photo

The works will be carried out in El Segundo in California (for 80%) and in St. Louis, Missouri (for the remaining 20%), and is expected to be completed in April 2025.

The contracting station is Naval Air Systems Command of Patuxent River in Maryland.

The Royal Australian Air Force, over 24 Boeing F / A-18F Super Hornet multi-role fighter bomber fighters, also purchased 12 EA-18G Growlers (named localmenye AEA-18G) for electronic warfare, escort and suppression of anti-aircraft defense missions.

One of the twelve AEA-18G aircraft under the RAAF was lost in January 2018; this aircraft will be replaced with a new production aircraft which was ordered in September 2021.


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