Today was Electronic Awareness Warfare Appreciation Day at Andrews AFB. The base hosted a sort of petting zoo for high-tech jamming systems. I noticed a Boeing EA-18G parked on the side, and struck up a conversation with the pilot.
此日为安德鲁斯空军基地的电子战感知欣赏日（？）。基地举行了一系列的高科技电子干扰系统展示。我注意到一架EA18G停靠在这边，（所以）上去和飞飞侃了一番。
As we chatted about interference cancellation systems, I couldn't help but notice an odd decal decorating the side of the fuselage. I asked the pilot: What's that aircraft decal on the fuselage?
当我们谈到干扰消除系统时，我不由得注意到机身一侧上的一个奇怪的标志。我问飞飞：那是干嘛的？
"That's an F-22," he said.
Y说：是一架F22
Well, why is it there?
怎么会在这？
"Because this is the EA-18G that killed an F-22," he explained.
因为这架EA18G‘干掉’了一架F22
Um, really?
额？真的？
Alas, after that bombshell, the conversation quickly dried up. I did learn the EA-18G kill was courtesy of a well-timed AIM-120 AMRAAM shot. And I learned the simulated combat exercise took place at Nellis AFB. How the EA-18G escort jammer got the shot, and whether its jamming system played a role in the incident were not questions the pilot was prepared to answer.
唉，这句话问完后对话迅速变得简单。我被‘谦虚地’告知这架EA18G的击杀得益于120蛋蛋在绝佳时机的发射，该次演习发进行内里斯基地。至于EA18G是如何发射，其自带的干扰系统有无发挥作用，飞行员不能回答。
For the spotters, the aircraft pictured above is EA-1, the first of two Lot 27 F/A-18Fs converted into flying prototypes for the EA-18G program.
据观察人士透露， 照片上此机为EA-1号，是Lot 27（第27批次F/A-18F）中的两架FA18F中的一架专门为EA18G计划而改装成原型机的。
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