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Absolute Resolve and the EA-18G Growler

Absolute Resolve and the EA-18G Growler

Neutralizing an integrated air defense system starts with knowing where it is. Once found, that's where the fun begins. Enemy radar screens quickly become useless or start filling up with ghost targets. All that happens right before they become smoking holes in the ground at the invisible hands of the EA-18G Growler. The EA-18G Growler Ghosts Enemy Radars The Growler is the U.S. Navy's dedicated airborne electronic attack jet, built on the F/A-18F Super Hornet airframe and wired from nose to...

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Capt. Amy Bauernschmidt, U.S. Navy (1994–Present)

Capt. Amy Bauernschmidt, U.S. Navy (1994–Present)

As the USS Abraham Lincoln sailed into San Diego Thursday, Aug. 11, with two destroyers in tow and some 6,000 sailors and Marines aboard, it marked the completion of a U.S. military first: Navy Capt. Amy Bauernschmidt has now completed her first mission as the first woman to command a U.S. aircraft carrier. The nuclear-powered aircraft carrier left for a routine deployment to the Indo-Pacific region — generally ranging from the Philippines to the South China Sea — on Jan. 3. Over the next...

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