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Air Force

HASC Bill Tells Air Force To Replace JSTARS, Speed Up Compass Call Successor

By Marc Selinger

Wednesday, April 25th, 2018

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HASC Bill Tells Air Force To Replace JSTARS, Speed Up Compass Call Successor

An E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (JSTARS) aircraft. Photo: Air Force.

The House Armed Services Committee (HASC) unveiled a fiscal year 2019 defense authorization bill April 25 that would require the Air Force to replace the E-8C JSTARS ground-surveillance aircraft with a new plane and speed up buying a successor to the EC-130H Compass Call electronic-attack aircraft.The Air Force has argued that a new JSTARS aircraft, also known as the JSTARS recapitalization, would not be survivable in contested environments and that a better approach would be developing and fielding a new Advanced…

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