ES-3 retirement raises concern

The U.S. Navy's decision to retire its fleet of carrier-based ES-3 signals intelligence (sigint) aircraft to avoid upgrade costs may have been based on incomplete analysis, according to a fleet commander. The Navy earlier this year decided to retire the Vikings rather than upgrade their sigint...

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