Talk:E-8 Joint STARS

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I thought the these things had 'US Army' on the side. Oh, well, pictures don't lie. [[PaulinSaudi 18:04, 15 Apr 2004 (UTC)]]

Nope, it's an Air Force flown, maintained and paid for aircraft.--Jess 00:33, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

The airframe is USAF--the crew and missions are joint.

Contents 1 ECM? 2 Manufacturer 3 Geographic location of GMTI image 4 Dead link 5 Updating 6 Joint STARS

[edit] ECM?

Doesnt ECM distract missiles? How can a plane be ECM resistant? --The1exile 18:31, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

The ECM they're talking about is what an enemy would use against the RADAR of the aircraft. This RADAR system has ways to reduce the effects of jamming & other types of ECM. I'm not sure exactly what your asking. --Jess 00:41, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

ECM covers a wide variety of countermeasures, of which spoofing missiles is just one limited aspect. And the "how" is classified to try to protect it from being defeated.

[edit] Manufacturer

The manufacturer for the E-8 JointSTARS program is actually Northrop Grumman, not Boeing (who made the original air frames). --HotBBQ 14:35, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

Boeing is the manufacturer of the aircraft. NG is the manufacturer and integrator of the missions systems. Most importantly, the DoD lists the manufacturer of the total package as Boeing/Northrop Grumman, which is why we list it that way here. AKRadecki^Speaketh 14:49, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Geographic location of GMTI image

Does anyone know the geographic location of the GMTI image?

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Left a message on your talk page. — BQZip01 — <sup>talk</sup> 01:59, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Dead link

During several automated bot runs the following external link was found to be unavailable. Please check if the link is in fact down and fix or remove it in that case!

• http://www.is.northropgrumman.com/products/usaf_products/e8c_jstars/e8c.html
  • In E-8 Joint STARS on 2008-01-11 17:47:04, 404 Not found
  • In E-8 Joint STARS on 2008-01-22 23:00:13, 404 Not found

--Stwalkerbot 23:01, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Updating

I may be mistaken, but I believe somebody should update the part about the base commanders, because i believe it is inaccurate.--ItsJodo (talk) 17:22, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Joint STARS

I believe a new article should be created for the Joint STARS, as Joint STARS is not the aircraft, but an observation and surveillance part of the USAF —Preceding unsigned comment added by ItsJodo (talk • contribs) 13:23, 18 March 2008 (UTC)