Dasting….
Mysterious New Electronic Warfare System Spotted On U.S. Navy Aircraft Carriers
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Now a new system has emerged on two west coast-based supercarriers, the USS Carl Vinson and the USS Abraham Lincoln, which both recently headed out into the Pacific.
The system in question is mounted at three locations around the perimeter of Nimitz class supercarriers to provide near-spherical coverage around the ship, just like the carrier's other defenses. This includes an installation on the fantail and two on opposite sides, amidships.
The large enclosures appear to be able to swivel, at least to a limited degree, and feature a circular, domed radome covering. The carriers already have variants of the AN/SLQ-32 Surface Electronic Warfare Improvement Program (SEWIP) electronic warfare system and some of them have also been equipped with the shadowy AN/SLQ-59 system, which may have been an interim application.
So what does this discreet new system do? Our best guess is that it is a powerful active electronically-scanned array (AESA), potentially adapted from an off-the-shelf system like a fighter's radar, which can execute pinpoint attacks on incoming threats that use radiofrequency (radar) homing or leverage the RF spectrum at all to accomplish their terminal attack runs.
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https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/41857/mysterious-new-electronic-warfare-system-spotted-on-u-s-navy-aircraft-carriers
The article doesn't state what it is, only speculates about it. Timing of article is dasting, though, to say the least