That's actually what BAE and the USAF are claiming. Obviously since the F-15's EW suite is a decade more advanced. Maybe you don't realise this but BAE makes the F-15's and F-35's EW suite, and if they are claiming the F-15's suite is better, then you're gonna look like a fool disputing their claim.
BAE claims the F-15's EPAWSS is a significant upgrade over the F-35's DEWS. Not my words.
The F-35 has inferior hardware and lacks other capabilities that are present on the F-15, especially GaN.
Nice try. I said EW/AVIONICS not just EW. F-15EX overall avionics which include its EW is not as advanced as the F-35's overall avionics and USAF has made that known.
F-15EX Wins Some, Loses Some in Northern Edge
-The F-15EX both shot down some adversaries and was shot down itself during the recent Northern Edge wargame in Alaska, and work is underway to analyze the results of its first appearance in the major force exercise, according to a test pilot who participated.
“We flew them with two-ships of F-15C models, two-ships of F-15E models, … two-ships of EXs supporting other fourth-gen [flights], and integrating with the F-22 and F-35,” he said.
Though the F-15EXs “tallied some kills while they were up there,” O’Rear acknowledged there were also some losses.
“If you go into any large force exercise and you come back with everybody—with no blue losses—I would probably say that your threat is not as robust as it needs to be, in order to get the learning,” he said. Northern Edge was meant to be a multi-service exercise against a near-peer threat having some low-observable capabilities.
Although O’Rear couldn’t speak to the incidents where the F-15EXs were shot down, “in this kind of environment, most of your blue ‘deaths’ are probably going to be outside of visual range, just because of the threat we’re replicating,” he said. Visual range dogfights are “not something that happens a whole bunch.”
The jets also exercised the Eagle Passive Active Warning Survivability System, an electronic warfare suite meant to buy the jet more survivability against modern threats. It was the second wargame outing for the EPAWSS, after a Black Flag exercise In December 2020 at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada.
F-15EX Wins Some, Loses Some in Northern Edge - Air Force Magazine
Guess which fighter didn't get shot down outside visual range... F-22 and F-35.
EPAWSS and Barracuda (AN/ASQ-239) are superior to SPECTRA the only problem with EPAWSS is that it is on a 4th gen fighter. EPAWSS was used in Northern Edge21 to see if it can get F-22 and F-35 closer to target (without F-35 using its ew) and it did great however the F-35's Barracuda also has
the same capabilities the difference is F-35 used its EW to hide non-stealthy F-16s.
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‘The initial scenario was that our two F-35s would escort a four-ship of F-16s across a notional border and protect them against another eight-ship of F-16s simulating a modern adversary. A relatively inexperienced flight leader was in charge of the F-16s on our side and Lt Col Joost ‘Niki’ Luijsterburg, the Tucson detachment commander, was responsible for the adversaries. Up to this point we had only practised these scenarios in the simulators and while we had a decent game-plan, we were all anxious to see how the F-35 would perform in real life. We figured that the F-35’s stealth would keep us out of harm’s way for most of the fight, but that we also need to protect the friendly F-16s, maximize the lethality of their missiles and get them to the target.
To make this happen, we planned to initially use electronic attack against the adversary F-16s, see if we could avoid having them detect friendly fighters and datalink the location of the hostile aircraft to our F-16s. This way we could use the F-16s on our side to shoot down the initial wave of enemy fighters and keep our own missiles available once the ‘Blue Air’ F-16s had to focus on their target attack. The plan worked flawlessly.
‘In the debrief ‘Niki’ told us it was one of the most memorable sorties he had ever flown. Having previously worked in the F-35 program office he was elated to find out how effective the F-35 was, but at the same time he was frustrated by not getting a single shot off the rail against us, while getting killed multiple times. After that sortie it really hit us that the F-35 was going to make a big difference in how we operate fighters and other assets in the Royal Netherlands Air Force.’...
Dutch F-35As OUT of the SHADOWS - Combat Aircraft May 2018 pp6 (1).pdf
It's easy for F-15EX EPAWSS to hide a flight of stealthy fighters and get them as close to target as possible but can it do it on non stealthy fighters like the F-35's Barracuda can? F-35s jammed 8 radars while hiding themselves and four F-16's.
F-35 can literally give you an E-virus ("think of stuxnet") according to General Hostage.
