EA-6B gets replacement.

Earlier this year Northrop Grumman began assembling the US Navy's first EA-18G, the service's next-generation electronic attack aircraft, which is due to begin replacing the EA-6B Prowler (pictured) by the end of the decade. This comes just six months after EA-18G prime contractor Boeing began the programme's system development and demonstration (SDD) phase. Northrop Grumman's Integrated Systems division will begin assembling the first of two SDD contract test EA-18Gs by loading the aircraft's first bulkhead components into place on the company's F/A-18 production line in El Segundo, which is