hey! I gots an idear! let’s tell the enemy 1how to negate our air advantage by giving them targets to kill on the ground!
I don’t get your idea.
“...let’s tell the enemy how to negate our air advantage by giving them targets to kill on the ground!” [camle, post 6]
“...this article is giving the enemy ideas on how to defeat us.” [camle, post 9]
You’re behind the times. Between 50 and 100 years.
JTACs and other forward-observer troops don’t give target ID nor location in the clear.
They use encoded radio transmissions and grid references.
Even in the grid coordinate system, sending location information presents minimal risk: without knowing the coordinate origin location and measurement system, an adversary listening to radio traffic will hear nothing but a string of numbers.
As far back as 40 years ago, tactical air-ground radios could be equipped with encryption subsystems, encoding all transmissions. They could be re-keyed daily or more often, negating adversary attempts to crack the codes.
" Any enemy in any armed conflict, is well aware of the danger coming from a PAN and islamists are trying to destroy them in the first place."
Do don't worry, the enemy figured out that forward air controllers are also fighting against them a long time ago.
After reading the last paragraph in the article they will also know that at least as far as the Russians are concerned if you encircle one of their forward air controllers his last act may well be to call in a strike on his own position and that of the encircling enemy.