The Future of Air Warfare: Offensive Electronic Attack (Sponsored)

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E. Vincent "Jell-O" Aiello, Retired U.S. Navy Fighter Pilot

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🗓️ 13 July 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Electronic warfare is a crucial element of armed conflict involving controlling and protecting the electromagnetic spectrum which is vital for communication, navigation, and target identification. EW also permits the disruption and denial of adversaries' use of the spectrum, hindering their ability to operate effectively.

Benjamin “Chuck” Angus, Director of Business Development in Naval Power at Raytheon, a business of RTX, joins us this week to discuss Raytheon's involvement in EW, specifically offensive electronic attack, with its Next Generation Jammer—an advanced electronic attack system that denies, disrupts and degrades enemy technology, including communication tools and air-defense systems.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the show.
0:08.2	My name is Vincent Aiello, Colsangelo.
0:10.5	I am the founder and host of the fighter pilot podcast.
0:13.8	And I'm Mike Benizaz, Callsign Paco, founder and host of the merge.
0:18.2	And Paco, in this mini series featured on both our channels, we have discussed weapons,
0:22.5	radars, and most recently modeling and simulation.
0:25.8	But when it comes to modern warfare, one additional topic definitely deserves a seat at the table.
0:31.3	100%.
0:32.3	In any military conflict, electronic warfare, jamming, EW, a lot of things you can say what it is,
0:39.1	but it's crucial since it includes controlling and protecting the electromagnetic spectrum.
0:44.1	The thing you can't see, but you can definitely see the impact.
0:47.1	And it's vital for communication, navigation, and even things like target identification.
0:51.8	Not to mention allowing for the disruption and denial of the
0:55.1	adversary's use of the electromagnetic spectrum, hindering their ability to do all those very same
1:00.2	things you just mentioned. That's right. And to have this conversation, someone way smarter than
1:04.6	neither of us put together is going to do we have today. And that's Benjamin Chuck Angus. He is the
1:09.9	director of business development and
1:11.4	naval power at Raytheon. Chuck, welcome to the show. Thanks, fellas. It's great to be here.
1:16.6	Great time to be an EW guy. All right. Is that the stage? Tell us a bit about your background
1:20.5	and personal experience in the field. Well, hey, thanks a lot again. So I'm Chuck Angus,
1:25.5	is a development director for airborne electronic attack.
1:29.4	We also call ourselves an electronic attack systems. And I was a high public school guy,
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