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"EA18G Growler eclipses F-35's stealth advantage", says Boeing

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Boeing: Growler Eclipses F-35's Stealth Advantage

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. -- Boeing is touting the effectiveness of its fourth-generation EA-18G electronic attack plane over Lockheed Martin Corp.'s F-35 stealth fighter as the lobbying battle over attack aircraft heats up.

The world's largest aerospace company didn't waste any time making its case during the opening day of the Navy League's Sea-Air-Space conference here, saying the Growler is more equipped than the Joint Strike Fighter for operating in areas with sophisticated enemy air defenses, known in military parlance as anti-access, area-denial, or A2-AD, environments.



"Stealth is perishable; only a Growler provides full spectrum protection," states one of the slides in a briefing given by Mike Gibbons, vice president of F/A-18 and EA-18G programs for Boeing, in a not-so-subtle dig at the radar-evading, fifth-generation jet made by Lockheed Martin Corp.


Boeing is pressing lawmakers to add funding for 22 additional Growlers in the Defense Department's fiscal 2015 budget, which begins Oct. 1. As it stands, the budget plan doesn't include any money for the derivative of the F/A-18 fighter.

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