WHAT did you say Hassan, I can't hear you
Posted on 10/05/2007 10:11:12 AM PDT by Signalman
The lid of secrecy covering the Sept. 6 Israeli air strike into Syria remains tight but one new theory emerging amid the speculation is that the Israeli conducted an electronic warfare exercise in preparation for future strikes or an attack on Iran.
Authoritative reports from the Middle East stated that the Israel operation included extensive electronic warfare jamming by aircraft. The Israeli were testing the capabilities of Russian-made air defenses, including both radar and missiles located near Damascus and south of Homs near the Lebanese northern border.
The raid was unprecedented in the blanket of jamming and electronic disruption that it caused over wide areas of Syria enroute to the target point, a base near the Euphrates River.
The jamming also affected parts of Lebanon and Israel but Syria was able to get a small amount of sensor information from one of its electronic eavesdropping stations and spot the Israeli infiltration.
The raid was part of a U.S. “masint” operation according to this theory, referring to the military practice known as measurement and signature intelligence that is designed to learn the chrematistics and capabilities of all weapons in a region that emanate electronic signals. The masint signatures are needed for targeting and for defeating air defense threats.
The daring raid would gain valuable intelligence needed for future strikes by both Israel and the United States in the region.
The U.S. military is considering attacks on both Syria and Iran to counter infiltration by insurgents and terrorists into Iraq, including the Iranian paramilitaries. Israel could use the data for its battle against Hizbullah and possibly a future strike on Iranian nuclear facilities.
Journalist Jack Wheeler raised this idea in a recent report when he stated that the identity of the target, whether nuclear facilities, missiles or Hizbullah terrorists is “not the story.”
“The primary point of the attack was not to destroy that target,” Wheeler said. “It was to shut down Syria's Russian air defense system during the attack. Doing so made the attack an incredible success. Syria is shamed and silent. Iran is freaking out in panic. Defenseless enemies are fun.”
Tactical EMP device?
The article didn’t sound too well written.
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We’re jamming
To think that jamming was a thing of the past,
We’re jamming, jamming
And I hope this jam is gonna last
No bullet can stop us now, we neither beg nor will we bow
Neither can be bought nor sold.
We all defend the right, JAH JAH children must unite
Your life is worth much more than gold.
We’re jamming, jamming
We’re jamming in the name of the Lord
We’re jamming, jamming
We’re jamming right straight from JAH
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~Bob Marley
New tagline material here...
Didn't I say this on an earlier thread....and people pooh poohed me.
The stunner Bibi's aide spoke about ....was the take down of the Syrian AA system.....now someone tell me again I'm wrong.
LOL!
That’s one of Dr. Wheeler’s theories, also.
I think it’s a great point.
WHAT did you say Hassan, I can't hear you
er... wonder what dinnerjacket would be saying if he wasn’t so panicked right now?
Nope
LOL
I was thinking that the “stunner” would be physical evidence of NK nuclear material recovered from the site itself, not the (surprise!) of American systems vs Russian whatever.
It is laughable just how stupid the Arabs are about from whom they buy lethal equipment to wage war.
They have been doing that since 67 and they just keep sending mother Russia billions for - as I’ve always said - equipment in which to die.
Big smoking holes in the ground with the tattered remains of a few arab soldiers...
That was caused by a cloaking device.
I don’t buy it. The Syrians and Iranians will change their systems based upon that attack.
So that attack was not a test run against Iran.
Iran announced this week that it has deployed its own “new defense system.”
You don’t give up the element of surprise by revealing that you can take down an enemy system just for the heck of it.
Huh? How'd they manage that typo?
Chre·ma·tis·tics
n.
The science of wealth; the science, or a branch of the science, of political economy.
Webster 1913 Dictionary edited by Patrick J. Cassidy
Now 37 years later I cannot imagine what they could do.
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