Two Navy EA-18G Growlers collided midair on May 17 during an air show at Mountain Home Air Force Base, Idaho. All four crew members ejected safely, and there were no fatalities.
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Fresh off the first combat deployment of its new EA-37B, the Air Force is nearly doubling the planned number of new electronic attack jets and projecting more than $3 billion in spending on the program in the next five years.
A pair of the U.S. Air Force’s EA-37B Compass Call electronic attack aircraft have been spotted at RAF Mildenhall in the United Kingdom and are joining operations against Iran.
The Air Force’s first mission-ready EA-37 Compass Call aircraft flew into Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Ariz., last week, the start of a major upgrade to the service’s electronic warfare fleet.
The Air Force has changed the designation of the EC-37B to the EA-37B, the better to describe its mission of electronically attacking enemy systems. The 10 new aircraft will replace 14 EC-130H Compass Call aircraft, which are going into flyable storage.