Northrop's SEWIP to deliver an 'unlimited magazine' of EW capabilities to the Navy

By Audrey Decker / July 15, 2022 at 1:35 PM
As China and Russia develop new classes of anti-ship missiles, Northrop Grumman's Surface Electronic Warfare Improvement Program aims to counter threats at sea for many years. The Navy started the program to substantially upgrade its electronic warfare capability on Arleigh Burke-class destroyers, according to Mike Meaney, vice president of land and maritime sensors at Northrop Grumman. The company builds SEWIP Block 3, which can jam inbound threats to a ship by emitting radio-frequency energy, Meaney told Inside Defense in...

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