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Boeing Teams With Northrop Grumman On B-52 Core Component Jammer

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Thursday, November 8th, 2007

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By Michael Sirak Boeing [BA] has joined forces with Northrop Grumman [NOC] to offer the Air Force an affordable and comparatively low-risk solution to installing powerful jamming pods on the B-52H bomber aircraft so that the venerable platform could disrupt enemy air defense radar from standoff distances in addition to its normal strike roles, according to representatives from both aerospace giants. The Air Force calls this concept the B-52 Core Component Jammer (CCJ). While the CCJ is currently not a…

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