The badass Growler. How does one jet shut down an entire country's air defenses without firing a single shot? During a 2 a.m. raid over Caracas last month, Venezuela's Russian- and Chinese-made missile systems never even launched. That's likely thanks to the U.S. Navy's EA-18G Growler, an electronic warfare aircraft built to jam, spoof, and destroy enemy radar. It clears the skies and erases the enemy's ability to see. In modern combat, that's a superpower.
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