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BAE Systems Describes EW Capabilities
The company’s low-profile electronic warfare business was highlighted in a Farnborough airshow briefing.
Intriguingly, BAE Systems chose to illustrate its electronic warfare briefing with images of the YF-23, Northrop’s good-looking but losing contender for the U.S. Air Force Advanced Tactical Fighter competition that was won by the Lockheed F-22 Raptor. (Image: BAE Systems)
Intriguingly, BAE Systems chose to illustrate its electronic warfare briefing with images of the YF-23, Northrop’s good-looking but losing contender for the U.S. Air Force Advanced Tactical Fighter competition that was won by the Lockheed F-22 Raptor. (Image: BAE Systems)

The electronic warfare (EW) business of BAE Systems is the world leader in this “least understood discipline,”according to vicepresident and general manager Jerry Wohletz. In a rare media briefing at the recent Farnborough airshow, he noted that the Nashua, N.H.-based business has produced more than 12,000 tactical systems in its 60-year history.