{"id":91319,"date":"2024-07-21T20:00:11","date_gmt":"2024-07-21T10:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/roles-usaf-ec-130h-compass-call-electronic-warfare\/"},"modified":"2024-07-21T20:00:11","modified_gmt":"2024-07-21T10:00:11","slug":"what-roles-does-the-usaf-ec-130h-compass-call-serve-in-electronic-warfare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=91319","title":{"rendered":"What Roles Does The USAF EC-130H Compass Call Serve In Electronic Warfare?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                    The <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/us-air-force\/\">US Air Force<\/a> EC-130H Compass Call has served as an important airborne electronic attack weapon system and is based on a heavily modified version of the <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/c-130\/\">C-130 Hercules<\/a> airframe. While the EC-130H Compass Call may look like another Hercules on the outside, its role is similar to that of <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/ea-18g-growler-what-is-the-purpose-of-electronic-warfare-aircraft\/\" >the EA-18G Growler, which specializes in electronic warfare (the Growler is based on the F\/A-18F Super Hornet)<\/a>.    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The venerable EC-130Hs have served the Air Force for decades and are now being retired in favor of smaller, sleeker electronic warfare aircraft.<\/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":[396,6067,570,5628,412,1328],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-c-130","category-guide","category-hercules","category-military","category-united-states-air-force"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91319","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=91319"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91320,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91319\/revisions\/91320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}