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An upgrade for the Boeing F-15’s new electronic warfare suite is in the works only weeks after the baseline version arrived at an operational squadron for the first time.
The upgrade to the BAE Systems F-15 Eagle Passive Active Warning Survivability System (EPAWSS) surfaced in a social media post by Rob Novotny, Boeing’s executive director for F-15 business development, who visited the supplier earlier this week.
“Great day in Nashua, NH, with our BAE Systems Inc. teammates talking EPAWSS and ... EPAWSSv2!,” Novotny wrote.
In Defense Department nomenclature for electronic systems, a “v2” suffix denotes a new version compared to the baseline.
BAE also mentioned the “EPAWSSv2” system in a job advertisement for a “senior TacAir product line test lead” the company posted on Feb. 19.
BAE and Boeing declined to provide further details immediately.
EPAWSS, also known as the ALQ-250, replaces the three subcomponents of the former Tactical Electronic Warfare System—a radar warning receiver, a countermeasure controller and a countermeasure dispenser—into the same system with improved performance. EPAWSS also integrates with the Raytheon APG-82 active electronically scanned array radar.
A fact sheet on BAE’s website points to future upgrades, saying the EPAWSS supports future capabilities, including a fiber-optic towed decoy, an expansion of frequency coverage and cognitive electronic warfare processing. The latter is able to identify previously undetected threat signals in the electromagnetic spectrum.
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