U.S. Navy Targets Land-Based Growlers For Retirement

Brian Everstine June 07, 2022
U.S. Navy EA-18G Growler aircraft
The Navy wants to retire 25 of its expeditionary EA-18G Growlers, including this aircraft that deployed to train at Ellsworth AFB, South Dakota, in 2016.
Credit: Airman 1st Class Sadie Colbert/U.S. Air Force
The U.S. Navy’s small fleet of 25 land-based Boeing EA-18G Growlers is the military’s sole provider of expeditionary electronic attack, heavily relied on to protect critical-strike aircraft for joint operations. But the Navy does not want to serve this specific mission anymore, and the other...
Brian Everstine

Brian Everstine is the Pentagon Editor for Aviation Week, based in Washington, D.C. Before joining Aviation Week in August 2021, he covered the Pentagon for Air Force Magazine. Brian began covering defense aviation in 2011 as a reporter for Military Times.

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