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U.S. Navy EA-18Gs deployed to U.S. Southern Command this year.
The Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) has received its first ALQ-249 next-generation jammer mid-band jamming pods, developer Raytheon says.
Australia is the first export customer for the standoff jamming system. The RAAF about a decade ago said it was looking to join the program, which was still in early development at the time.
Delivery of the system to the RAAF, which had been planned for last year, comes after the U.S. Navy declared the mid-band system operational in early 2025. The system will allow the RAAF to more effectively deal with a range of adversary technologies, says Barbara Borgonovi, president of naval power at RTX’s Raytheon unit, in a statement.
The ALQ-249 jammer is designed for use on the EA-18G Growler to augment and eventually replace the ALQ-99 jamming system in the mid-band frequency range. The U.S. Navy in 2024 awarded Raytheon a contract to evolve the jamming pod into the Next Generation Jammer Mid-Band Extended (NGJ-MBX) to address threat evolutions.
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