Page 29 - Williams Foundation Future of Electronic Warfare Seminar

A New Approach and Attitude to Electronic Warfare in Australia

"We can confront the threat requiring an EW capability anywhere we operate.”

He described the sun setting of the unique EW aircraft, the Prowler, in favor of a sequential role out of
distributed capability to the MAGTF.

He focused initially on Intrepid Tiger which is an EW pod being incorporated the Marine Corps legacy air.

It is on the Harrier and UH-1Y currently but will be added to other aircraft in the force.

“It's made over 20 deployments now.

"It's an open architecture system.

"It does electronic surveillance; it does electronic attack.
"We have a new one called Intrepid Tiger Block 2X which is being built to do radar jamming.

"It's about 305 pounds for the Harriers and Hornets.

"It's going to go next on V-22 then on C-130 and then on the CH-53 helo.

“We had about 120 we've built so far, we have 268 in the program of record.”

It’s completely an open architecture.

“And we have invited manufacturers if they have a card that can fit into the system to propose putting it into
the pod.

"If you have a card that fits in that slot and you can do so, bring it and you can plug it in, but do not ask us to
change the box for us to take your card.

"You have to adapt your card to fix my box.”

The Marines are deploying the F-35 at the same time, which is a core capability for the USMC in delivering
non-kinetic effects throughout the distributed force as well.

“The F-35 is part of our electronic warfare strategy for the United States Marine Corps. Indeed, it is a key
part of our strategy.”

He then described an exercise involving the F-35.

“We were doing a drill, and the F-35 does a great job at a lot of things.

"It does a very good job in terms of electronic warfare as well.
"Bottom line, I was out there, I saw four ship of F-35s, and the scenario was a double digit SAM threat, it was
1,000 foot overcast, we had four Bs out there, we had a forward air controller on the ground, and these guys
had launched off the ship and they were overhead, and they were going to go take out ground vehicles and
suppress and shutdown the SAM.
“We brought in all of our senior one and two star generals. In short period of time, the F-35s got rid of the
SAMs.

“They were operating more like a pack of dogs than ever seen in 36 years of flying strike airplanes including
being the CO of the Weapons School.

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