Why did Defence spend $1.5B on obsolete jamming aircraft?

So basically, the entrenched defence bureaucracy is spending $1.5B for a system...

...that would be ready to fight Operation:ALLIED FORCE in 1999.


The Diet Coke of jammers.

Escort jammer for some Soviet-era gear.

Those sources (the horses mouth) not good enough?

More from 2009. US Navy: ALQ-99 pods no match for “today’s” threat

Blue-sky marking?

The Next Gen Jammer.

Which, on a highly tanker dependant drag-o-matic, won't stop it from being run down and killed.

Still, an escort jammer...

The usual suspects...don't have a clue.


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