Prowler Future

[raptor10]

Circa 2001 - check out the V-22 operating with the "JSF"

@eddie AEW basically Maritime Airborne Surveillance and Control but all this was directed towards the Brits.

 

[eddie]

Circa 2001 - check out the V-22 operating with the "JSF"

@eddie AEW basically Maritime Airborne Surveillance and Control but all this was directed towards the Brits.

Oh those sad, unfortunate looking Boeing JSFs...

 

[Flash]

just like the Navy is doing with the Osprey, eh? sit back & let the Corps do the R&D, then when all is said and done, jump on the bandwagon.

and you gentlemen underestimate the Marine Corps cheapness ... the Marine Corps will move the RAG to Cherry Point, shitcan the carrier qual requirement for the pilots, and with all the "hand-me-down" Prowlers we get from the Navy, survive for another decade or so when it either switches to an EW-JSF varient or get out of the EW business.

S/F

I am thinking that one, too much money for too little return for the Marines right now.

 

[fudog50]

Calling a Marine is another one, nice shot Brett.

 

[fudog50]

a shipmate

 

[Frumby]

Speaking to my compadres at the Q's in Cheerless Pit, I doubt there will be a follow on to the Prowler in the Marine Corps. Electronic attack may cease as one of the functions of Marine Aviation but anything can happen in eight years. The Prowler may go by the way of Monica's blue dress: stained, worn and put into a museum. Semper Fly, Frumby

 

[jfulginiti]

The only way we can have our own Prowler RAG is to use one of the four existing squadrons and go down to three deploying squadrons. As it is, you only get a full squadron of personnel and jets when you deploy. When you get home, you get raped by the MAG and the Wing. Not to mention that no Navy squadrons = no support/funding for parts, maintenance, etc.

 

[Brett327]

The only way we can have our own Prowler RAG is to use one of the four existing squadrons and go down to three deploying squadrons. As it is, you only get a full squadron of personnel and jets when you deploy. When you get home, you get raped by the MAG and the Wing. Not to mention that no Navy squadrons = no support/funding for parts, maintenance, etc.

Seems like the whole idea is becoming less and less likely/feasible, but it's not like the Corps hasn't soldiered on with other bad ideas in the past. My prediction (wild speculation, really), as soon as 129 transfers its last EA-6, Marine Prowlers will wither and die.

Brett

 

[jarhead]

The only way we can have our own Prowler RAG is to use one of the four existing squadrons and go down to three deploying squadrons. As it is, you only get a full squadron of personnel and jets when you deploy. When you get home, you get raped by the MAG and the Wing. Not to mention that no Navy squadrons = no support/funding for parts, maintenance, etc.

the Corps could standup a new squadron, in this case a FRS, by using hand-me-down Prowlers transferred from the Navy after they transition to the F/A-18G.

 

[Flash]

the Corps could standup a new squadron, in this case a FRS, by using hand-me-down Prowlers transferred from the Navy after they transition to the F/A-18G.

The problem is that the Corps would have to fund the parts and engineering tail that the Navy now funds, which is a lot of money that the Corps does not have. Not only that, does the Corps want to make that big of an investment that they have basically lost control of for the past decade? I don't think so, my guess is that the Prwoler will be the last in the line of Marine EA aircraft.......

 

[Brett327]

The problem is that the Corps would have to fund the parts and engineering tail that the Navy now funds, which is a lot of money that the Corps does not have. Not only that, does the Corps want to make that big of an investment that they have basically lost control of for the past decade? I don't think so, my guess is that the Prwoler will be the last in the line of Marine EA aircraft.......

To further that line of thinking, would the Corps want to make that big an investment for an aircraft that likely wouldn't be around for more than 5 years after the Navy gets out completely? It just doesn't make sense to go through the trouble and expense of setting up a RAG, only to get rid of it a few years later.

Brett

 

[jfulginiti]

the Corps could standup a new squadron, in this case a FRS, by using hand-me-down Prowlers transferred from the Navy after they transition to the F/A-18G.

We don't have enough people to man a 5th squadron.

 

[BigIron]

Off subject, but this is a patriotic paint job for an EA6

 

[Recovering LSO]

Off subject, but this is a patriotic paint job for an EA6

Patriotic, yes. LOAR, definitley.

 

[phrogdriver]

and for the carrier for that matter. I.

If they fit on LHAs and LHDs, how would they not fit on a carrier?