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The Maritime Services, the Allies and Shaping the Kill Web
“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.”
FIGURE 19 MARINE CORPS ILLUSTRATION OF THE EW KILL WEB
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.
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