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After the US Navy elevated Electronic Warfare (EW) to an independent dimension of naval warfare alongside the traditional naval warfare dimensions ASuW, ASW and AAW, EW is being further developed conceptually and materially. In a first step, the US Navy's EA-18G Growler EW fighter aircraft will be equipped with a newly developed AN/ALQ 249NG digital standoff jamming system (jammer). The new system replaces the analog ALQ-99 system, which dates back to the 1970s. AN/ALQ 249NG is ten times more powerful than the previous system and works on a gallium-nitium basis.

Dieter Stockfisch