Alternative Electronic Warfare Aircraft

[chiglet]

Being "pedantic"  the Lancaster, Halifax, Stirling et al, ALL dropped "Window". Yes I know it was renamed "Chaff " by our Trans At cousins.... but that was later

[chiglet]

How about one of the V-bombers converted to provide EW cover and diversionary attacks for the main force? Bomb bay full of jammers, a forest of blade aerials and pods and air-launched decoys under the wings.

A good read is "The Penetraters" about a V Bomber  raid on the USA 

[Weaver]

How about one of the V-bombers converted to provide EW cover and diversionary attacks for the main force? Bomb bay full of jammers, a forest of blade aerials and pods and air-launched decoys under the wings.

A good read is "The Penetraters" about a V Bomber  raid on the USA 

Read it: it's on my bookshelf! 

[PR19_Kit]

How about one of the V-bombers converted to provide EW cover and diversionary attacks for the main force? Bomb bay full of jammers, a forest of blade aerials and pods and air-launched decoys under the wings.

A good read is "The Penetraters" about a V Bomber  raid on the USA 

Read it: it's on my bookshelf! 

My copy is worn to a mere shadow of it's former self!

[Old Wombat]

I have an A-7K that I'm thinking of doing as an EA-7K to support A-7D/E mud-mover op's.

[lenny100]

got  a idea for a HP 400 as a very early airborne anti radio aircraft from the 1920's

[famvburg]

Why would the USAF be looking to replace the Prowler? Since when do they see to USN replacements? Or is this all just Whif?

[lenny100]

Why would the USAF be looking to replace the Prowler? Since when do they see to USN replacements? Or is this all just Whif?

With the retirement of the EF-111 Raven in 1998, the EA-6B was the only dedicated aerial radar jammer aircraft of the U.S. Armed Forces, until the fielding of the Navy's EA-18G Growler in 2009. The EA-6B has been flown in almost all American combat operations since 1972, and is frequently flown in support of the U.S. Air Force missions.

124 Prowlers remained in 2001 divided between twelve Navy, four Marine, and four joint Navy-Air Force "Expeditionary" squadrons. A Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) staff study recommended that the EF-111 Raven be retired to reduce the types of aircraft dedicated to the same mission, which led to an Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) program memorandum to establish 4 land based "expeditionary" Prowler squadrons to meet the needs of the Air Force.

The USN plans to fly the EA-6B until 2015, while the USMC expect to phase out the Prowler in 2019.
The last Navy deployment was on George H.W. Bush 2014, with VAQ-134

[seadude]

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Lockheed's AMSS (Advanced Multi-mission Sensor System) project yet.
The top aircraft in the pic is configured for ASUW (Anti-surface warfare), and the bottom aircraft is configured for AEW (Airborne Early Warning). If I had a S-3 Viking kit, I'd bet both of those aircraft art concepts could be built from S-3 Viking kits.

[PR19_Kit]

I like that, especially the anti-sub one with the tall fin. 

[zenrat]

AEW? or is that one of those roof boxes people put on their cars when the missus packs so many shoes the boot is full?

Why was it called "Window"?  Randomly assigned codename?

I'm thinking Cap'n Fat Hamsters Handley Page Henfield might have to have a radio room with a powerful jammer to block his prey signalling for help.
And maybe when I get build the second Heyford based whiff it can be an AEW plane with a rotating array of ear trumpets on the top?

[PR19_Kit]

And maybe when I get build the second Heyford based whiff it can be an AEW plane with a rotating array of ear trumpets on the top?

ROTFL! 

LOVE the idea! Like an airborne version of the Denge Acoustic Mirror site. 

[Weaver]

AEW? or is that one of those roof boxes people put on their cars when the missus packs so many shoes the boot is full?

Why was it called "Window"?  Randomly assigned codename?

I'm thinking Cap'n Fat Hamsters Handley Page Henfield might have to have a radio room with a powerful jammer to block his prey signalling for help.
And maybe when I get build the second Heyford based whiff it can be an AEW plane with a rotating array of ear trumpets on the top?

You know, you could get a whole series of comedy models out of the theme of "low-tech high-tech", i.e. biplane-era equivalents of modern technology.

Airborne Early Warning : big biplane with a rotating array of trumpet-shaped sound-locators,

Stealth : biplane with canvas sheets rigged underneath it and in between the wing struts with paintings of empty blue sky on them,

Electrical Counter-Measures : big biplane with belt-driven generators running off the engines (or windmills) and an array of Frankenstein's Lab-style electrical devices installed on the fuselage: towers of insulator rings, pair of copper balls with sparks flying between them, Van de Graaff generators etc...

Wireless Intelligence Gathering : biplane rigged with a mass of wire aerials suspended between "masts" like an old-fashioned warship*

"Automatic aeroplane bomb" carrier: big biplane carrying a little two-place biplane with a very obviously clockwork autopilot installed in the rear cockpit, cartoon bomb in the front cockpit, no undercarriage and a ladder for the bomb-aimer to climb down the outside of the carrier aircraft to "program" it.


* "Wireless? It's all bloody wires!" - My grandma's response to my uncle's attempt to build a home-made radio in the 1940s...

[PR19_Kit]

Heavy Lift Transport : Two, or more, largish bi-planes with the cargo carried in a monster net slung between them.

[Weaver]

Anti-Submarine Warfare : big biplane with a diving bell with big windows and lots of lights hanging underneath it on a cable.