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USAF Plans to Stand Up Spectrum Warfare Wing to Focus on Offensive EW

Frank Wolfe

Wednesday, January 27th, 2021

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USAF Plans to Stand Up Spectrum Warfare Wing to Focus on Offensive EW

The EC-37B Compass Call Re-Host aircraft with an EC-130H Compass Call in the background (BAE Systems Photo)

The U.S. Air Force plans to stand up the 350th Spectrum Warfare Wing to focus on offensive electronic warfare (EW) "real soon," Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Charles Q. Brown said on Jan. 27. "The Air Force has been really not focused on the electromagnetic spectrum, and we've neglected it, kind of as a newer mindset," he told an Association of Old Crows virtual forum. "We've allowed a reduction of offensive airborne electronic attack since [Operation] Desert Storm [in…

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