[steve86]

Related article in the current issue of Aviation Week and Space Technology.

The "how" of the program is highly classified but the "what" is known in general terms -- break into an enemy's air, land, or sea deployed sigint and weapons systems, monitor, and in later versions, take control of equipment as an active "system manager".

The magazine article mentions a metaphor of making the enemy radar think it's a wash machine and putting it into rinse mode!

These capabilities apparently are tested in realistic flight situations, utilizing multiple specialized aircraft, although deployment is in the early stages with some data acquisition components already employed in Iraq.

The Suter aircraft evidently project multiple digital signal beams into the antennas and other electronic components of the enemy platform to probe and then set up an ad-hoc network, similar to what a "hacker" would do to a target computer on the Internet using ordinary TCP and IP data packets. The nature of the signal beams, however, is a highly guarded secret, but apparently involves some kind of synthesis of the different signals and dynamic adjustment to deal with changing conditions and countermeasures.

[steve86]

Ping. Familiar with this?

[ASA Vet]

MI Ping

Another "No Comment" thread.

[2111USMC]

"are now considered the military's most closely guarded projects"

Who's doing the "guarding"?

[VOA]

bump

[FreedomNeocon]

I always got a kick when there was a big media story about Chinese hackers and cyber-security and cyber-war stuff and the stories were always written like in awe of them and were very ominous.

A good hacker is like a good virus... if they know its there, you're screwing up.

I'm confident we have capabilities far beyond what this article describes.

[TommyDale]

Loose lips sink ships.

[garjog]

I wonder if this is why the N Koreans had so much trouble firing their missiles?

[tlb]

That we can read enemy radar screens was revealed by the govt as long ago as the Korean airliner shootdown.

[Better Dead Than Red]

Is everyone here tired from The State of the Union last night? I expected a Skynet joke within the first ten posts.

[adorno]

USAF can take control of enemy missile launchers

Now imagine if we could take control of that launched missile and re-direct it back towards the offending country. That would be so neat and so demoralizing to our enemies. Who knows, perhaps we already have that capability. Likewise, we need to make all of the enemy aircraft and tanks inoperable, or at least controlled by us, once a war is declared.

The next thing we need to work on and that's needed now is to cause the IEDs that are killing our soldiers in Iraq to explode in their faces as they're being set up.

[Fiddlstix]

BTTT

[CurlyDave]

These capabilities apparently are tested in realistic flight situations, utilizing multiple specialized aircraft, although deployment is in the early stages with some data acquisition components already employed in Iraq.

Now just exactly how much enemy radar and sophisticated battlefield management computing do you think we are facing in Iraq?

[muleskinner]

All Your Radar Are Belong To Us

[Thud]

ping

[_Jim]

The Suter aircraft evidently project multiple digital signal beams into the antennas and other electronic components of the enemy platform to probe and then set up an ad-hoc network, similar to what a "hacker" would do to a target computer on the Internet using ordinary TCP and IP data packets. The nature of the signal beams, however, is a highly guarded secret,

Smoke ... but no mirrors yet ...

[alrea]

Could they not just fly over and maim communication in Iran for a decade or two.

[semaj]

Unless the integrated system is running in a fully automated mode, it will never work. The TO still has to physically press the FIRE NOW button.

[Kevmo]

Bump for later reading

[xusafflyer]

"EC-130 Compass Call, RC-135 Rivet Joint "

I flew on both of these airframes from 94-98.

[B-Chan]

And people wonder why Adama wouldn't allow networked computers aboard Galactica. Wireless netcracking is how the Cylons won the war!