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Investigation Finds U.S. Missiles Downed Navy Jet
Washington Post ^
| December 11, 2004
| Thomas E. Ricks
Posted on 12/11/2004 10:14:53 AM PST by Former Military Chick
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To: Former Military Chick
Best wishes and heartfelt thanks to the family.
FWIW hasn't the MSM been telling use that Patriot doesn't work.
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posted on
12/11/2004 12:31:42 PM PST
by
mad_as_he$$
(I was born six gun in my hand, by the gun I'll make my final stand. NSDQ.)
To: HerrKobes
The Army has a history leaving it off, strangely believing that their IFF serves as a beacon to the enemy That would explain leaving a Blackhawk or Apache's IFF off, but not the interrogater on a Patriot fire control radar. The radar itself is about as much "beacon" as anyone would need. Sort of like trying to hide beside a lighthouse on a clear night.
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posted on
12/11/2004 12:32:51 PM PST
by
El Gato
(Activist Judges can twist the Constitution into anything they want ... or so they think.)
To: El Gato
See my reply above (#18). Patriot has IFF capability, but as the rules of engagement were set up then, it would not IFF query a bogey identified as a missile. In this case, the jet was classified by the computer (wrongly, obviously) as a missile, so no IFF query was performed by the system. I believe they started using manual override to IFF query all bogeys, however classified by the system, after this incident, but I could be wrong.
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12/11/2004 1:39:20 PM PST
by
colt1911
To: JRandomFreeper
Doesn't matter. A contact squawking mode 1 or 3A is enough, and all ships and aircraft do. There's a mode 4 theater code, so it isn't a question of getting the right CMS loaded.
Though I will say that I've always found the APX-72 to be a complete piece of crap.
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12/11/2004 2:53:52 PM PST
by
Doohickey
("This is a hard and dirty war, but when it's over, nothing will ever be too difficult again.”)
To: El Gato
but not the interrogater on a Patriot fire control radar
Sorry, forgot to specify the aircraft. I didn't mean to imply that the Patriot battery itself had an IFF transponder. Just the interrogator.
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