Electronic warfare (EW) experts at L3Harris Technologies Inc. will provide the U.S. Navy with 35 sophisticated EW systems designed to protect Navy combat aircraft from incoming radar-guided missiles. Officials of the Naval Air Systems Command at Patuxent River Naval Air Station, Md., on Thursday announced a $104 million order to the L3Harris Space & Airborne Systems segment in Clifton, N.J.,...
for 35 lot 17 AN/ALQ-214A(V)4 Integrated Defensive Electronic Countermeasures (IDECM) EW jammers for Navy F/A-18C/D and F/A-18E/F Hornet and Super Hornet carrier-based fighter-bombers.
The AN/ALQ-214(V)4 is an electronic jammer component of the integrated defensive electronic counter measures system (IDECM) avionics, which comes to the Navy from a joint venture of Harris and BAE Systems. It protects Navy fighter-bombers from radar-guided surface-to-air and air-to-air missiles by jamming the enemy missile guidance systems....MORE
