The U.S. Air Force has tested the new F-15E electronic warfare upgrade package EPAWSS during a novel exercise conducted on 17th November, hinting at the system’s development process and operationalization. The exercise, named Large Force Test Events (LFTE) 20.03 integrated ten weapons systems, including the F-35, F-22, F-15E, F-16, A-10, E/A-18G, HH-60G, EC-130H, KC-46, and KC-135, from the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Navy on November 17, 2020,..
...to test four Tactics Improvement Proposals, known as TIPs, as well as various high priority tests. The exercise ensured the interoperability among the forces and refine electronic warfare tactics in a contested environment.
“We owe it to the warfighter to test like we fight,” said Col Ryan Messer, commander, 53rd Wing. “It is only through realistic, massed force, fully integrated, high threat density environments that we can do that, and LFTEs are essential stepping stone events as we formalize what the future of testing like we fight looks like.”....MORE
