An electronic-warfare aircraft is a military aircraft equipped for electronic warfare (EW), that is, degrading the effectiveness of enemy radar and radio systems by using radar jamming and deception methods. In 1943, British

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aircraft were equipped with

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in order to blind enemy air defence radars. They were supplemented by specially-equipped aircraft flown by No. 100 Group RAF, which operated modified

Halifaxes The Handley Page Halifax is a British Royal Air Force (RAF) four-engined heavy bomber of the Second World War. It was developed by Handley Page to the same specification as the contemporary twin-engine Avro Manchester. The Halifax has its orig ...

, Liberators and Fortresses carrying various jammers such as ''Carpet'', '' Airborne Cigar'', ''Mandrel'', ''Jostle'', and ''Piperack''.

List of electronic-warfare aircraft

Examples of modern aircraft designed or modified for EW include: EF-111A Raven

* Antonov An-12BK-PPS ( Soviet Union) * Antonov An-26REP ( Soviet Union) * Boeing EA-18G Growler ( United States) * Denel TP1 Oryx EW ( South Africa) * Chengdu J-10D (

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) * Douglas C-47TP EWBraddick Specialised Air Services (BSAS) C-47TP EW “Turbo Dakota”
/ref> ( South Africa) * Douglas EA-3 Skywarrior ( United States) * Douglas EB-66 Destroyer ( United States) * Douglas EF-10B Skyknight ( United States) * Embraer R-99 ( Brazil) * General Dynamics/Grumman EF-111A Raven ( United States) * IAI 202B Arava ( Israel) * Ilyushin Il-22PP ( Soviet Union) / ( Russia) * Kawasaki EC-1 (

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) * Kawasaki RC-2 (

) *

Lockheed EC-130H Compass Call The EC-130H Compass Call is an electronic attack aircraft flown by the United States Air Force. Based on the Lockheed C-130 Hercules, the aircraft is heavily modified to disrupt enemy command and control communications, perform offensive counter ...

( United States) * Mil Mi-8PP ( Soviet Union) * Northrop Grumman EA-6B Prowler ( United States) *

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( Germany / Italy) * Shaanxi Y-8EW (

) * Shaanxi Y-8-GX1 (

) * Shaanxi Y-9-GX11 (

) * Shenyang J-15D (

) * Shenyang J-16D (

) * Sukhoi Su-24MP ( Soviet Union) * Tupolev Tu-16RM-2 ( Soviet Union) * Yakovlev Yak-28PP ( Soviet Union)

References

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