When Myths Become Media ‘Facts’ #4 – Electronic Warfare Equals Survivability

When Myths Become Media ‘Facts’ #4 – Electronic Warfare Equals Survivability

by | Dec 22, 2025 | Aerospace

One of the most dangerous myths in Canada’s fighter debate—spread by marketers and embraced by an uninformed audience—is that Electronic Warfare (EW) systems can save fighter aircraft in modern combat.
Somehow, Canadians have been convinced to believe in technologies they’ve never studied and clearly don’t understand. The EW narrative serves the anti-F-35 lobby perfectly. Politicians, media, and the public seem to imagine a Star Trek Romulan Cloaking Device. It’s not. And here’s the kicker: Gripen’s EW system isn’t even as powerful as the F-35’s.

When Myths Become Media ‘Facts’ #4 – Electronic Warfare Equals Survivability

When Myths Become Media Facts #3: Stealth is Dead

by | Dec 18, 2025 | Aerospace

The myth that “stealth is dead” and that electronic warfare systems function like Star Trek’s Romulan cloaking device appeals to those who want an easy, cheap answer to a complex problem. It’s seductive because it suggests Canadian anti-F-35 pundits want to buy a 4.5 Gen fighter, bolt on some electronic warfare pods, and achieve the same survivability as an F-35. It’s marketing genius—and complete fiction.

The Silver Fox Comes Home

The Silver Fox Comes Home

by | Dec 16, 2025 | Aerospace

At my change of command, our close friends from the 466th Fighter Squadron Diamondbacks—a US Air Force Reserve F-16 squadron out of Hill Air Force Base, Utah—decided to “liberate” our squadron’s stained-glass 441 Squadron crest from our squadron in a ‘daring’ night raid. Now it has found a new home in the fighter pilot bar of Steve Will, last CO of 441.