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You Don't Need Stealth Tech
By John
....to defeat a state-of-the-art radar system. Just a computer geek and a laptop.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said the Israelis struck a construction site at Tall al-Abyad just south of the Turkish border on Sept. 6. Press reports from the region say witnesses saw the Israeli aircraft approach from the Mediterranean Sea while others found unmarked drop tanks in Turkey near the border with Syria. Israeli defense officials admitted Oct. 2 that the Israeli Air Force made the raid.
The big mystery of the strike is how did the non-stealthy F-15s and F-16s get through the Syrian air defense radars without being detected? Some U.S. officials say they have the answer.
U.S. aerospace industry and retired military officials indicated today that a technology like the U.S.-developed “Suter” airborne network attack system developed by BAE Systems and integrated into U.S. unmanned aircraft by L-3 Communications was used by the Israelis. The system has been used or at least tested operationally in Iraq and Afghanistan over the last year.
The technology allows users to invade communications networks, see what enemy sensors see and even take over as systems administrator so sensors can be manipulated into positions so that approaching aircraft can’t be seen, they say. The process involves locating enemy emitters with great precision and then directing data streams into them that can include false targets and misleading messages algorithms that allow a number of activities including control.
A Kuwaiti newspaper wrote that "Russian experts are studying why the two state-of-the art Russian-built radar systems in Syria did not detect the Israeli jets entering Syrian territory. Iran reportedly has asked the same question, since it is buying the same systems and might have paid for the Syrian acquisitions."
Ahhh makes me think of Patton: "Fixed fortifications are monuments to the stupidity of man." Integrated anti-air defenses haven't really been all that effective since the Vietnam era, and I'm starting to think that they're obsolete technology.
I hope the cyber nerds in the Pentagon take note though. Based on this Syrian example, imagine the devastation that a successful hack could do to our net-centric military.
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Yeah but if you have snakes in the grass with a smart card, even that won't matter. One lonely outpost that makes a habit of late sync is all it takes.
ASW
Don't think for a moment that any of this is lost on the Chinese...they've been working to master the cyber-hack for at least a decade. I'd bet the Russians are not as shocked/puzzled as they are pretending to their clients.
I just hope the raid was effective to warrant showing these cards.
I do like how the IDF put all the F-15s with kill marks up front for the photo op.
Integrated anti-air defenses haven't really been all that effective since the Vietnam era, and I'm starting to think that they're obsolete technology.
That must be why the USAF has spent a ton of money on stealth and electronic attack and SEAD in past decades, and is desperately trying to find a way to finance the stealthy F-22, which it claims it needs to fight the likes of Iran and Venezuela (see http://206.204.189.217/AFA/Features/modernization/box092107warning.htm).
Those IADS are certainly cheaper and more effective for most countries than trying to buy a first-class air force, plus they make us spend money and do things differently.
Concur with Lugo. Don't forget what the Serbs did to an F-117 "Stealth" fighter not too long ago.
Never, never, NEVER underestimate your opponent.
Spade -
Those kill marks look strange - like maybe they are photoshopped? The contrast/brightness vis-a-vis the Star of David does not look right.
It would be like BATTLESTAR GALLACTICA, where the good guys get their computers hacked, and the bad guys wipe them out with nukes.
I hope the Pentagon is up to speed on this stuff.
I have my doubts.
I know for a fact that the picture is correct in showing the Mig kills on the IAF fighters. Because I actually have the Israeli magazine at home which is the cover shot. I think when they copied it onto this site it messed it up- but alot of IAF fighters have at least one ring from the war in Lebanon against Syria.
I'm curious as to what the Hebrew writting is on the radome's, Names maybe? Like "Old Crow"," Mattress Mary", or "Glamorus Glennis"?
"Concur with Lugo. Don't forget what the Serbs did to an F-117 "Stealth" fighter not too long ago."
You mean how they took advantage of the idiocy of the mission planners, using the same ingress and egress route at the same time every night?
I think that can be fixed by getting less stupid mission planners, no need to switch airframes.
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and misleading messages algorithms
Anyone who built a radar that takes code updates from a broadcast stream is a freaking moron. For maximum security and hardness against casual tampering you want that code to be loaded from a soldered down mask programmed ROM.