{"id":136863,"date":"2024-10-05T12:00:12","date_gmt":"2024-10-05T02:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/5-fast-facts-usaf-ef-111a-raven-electronic-attack-aircraft\/"},"modified":"2024-10-05T12:00:12","modified_gmt":"2024-10-05T02:00:12","slug":"5-fast-facts-on-the-usaf-ef-111a-raven-electronic-attack-aircraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=136863","title":{"rendered":"5 Fast Facts On The USAF EF-111A Raven Electronic Attack Aircraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2028966\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/f-111-aardvark-swing-wing-versatility-impact-us-military-aviation\/\" >F-111 Aardvark was a loved sweep-wing American fighter bomber of the late Cold War<\/a><\/span> (and was loved by the Australian Air Force). However, dozens were also specially converted for use as dedicated Electronic Warfare (EW)             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"58724\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/fighter-jets\/\"  >fighter jets<\/a><\/span>. These carried no missiles and were a valuable tool for the             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"306101\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/united-states-air-force\/\"  >United States Air Force<\/a><\/span> to Suppress Enemy Air Defenses (SEAD).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While unarmed, the EF-111A Raven gave the US Air Force a fighter jet-based dedicated electronic warfare platform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,628,589,408,412,1328],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-fighter-jets","category-general-dynamics","category-history","category-military","category-united-states-air-force"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=136863"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136864,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136863\/revisions\/136864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=136863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=136863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=136863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}