Facing Upgrade Costs, U.S. Navy Retires ES-3s
U.S. Navy officials have decided to retire their fleet of ES-3A Shadow intelligence-gathering aircraft ahead of schedule. They elected to phase out the aircraft rather than pay a multi-million dollar bill to overhaul the aircraft's signals intelligence (sigint) systems. The move accompanies reports...
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