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I truly enjoy discussing this subject with someone who has a contrary point of view.

I don’t know where you live, or if you are Russian, a patriotic Russian, a communist, or an immigrant to a non communist country.

I do respect your point of view, and also believe you should be shown a certain amount of respect for your bravery in posting on this forum and ‘sticking to your guns’.

I am not agreeing with your suppositions, and I don’t expect you to blindly accept mine either.

Many here think you are misinformed about the abilities and or shortcomings of Russian and American technologies.

Many here are just as misinformed about the same.

There are very few ‘experts’ as much of this technology is kept out of the public domain, but everybody is allowed the same freedom to speculate, and this includes you as well.

I have had many ‘debates’ here on FR, on a variety of technical subjects. Sometimes I am right, sometimes I am wrong.

Most people think that ‘being right’ is very, very important. So much so that they cannot admit it if they are not.

How sad. I do not give much value to being right, as it adds nothing to me personally.

But, when I am wrong, I easily accept being so. When I find I was wrong, I then have the opportunity to learn something new. That is why I value the discussions here on FR so much.

Welcome to FR, and may we all learn from the exchange.

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RusIvan actually does have a point. Has me perplexed ever since I read about it. How do you inject a virus through a radar dish ? This is simply not Independence Day here (the movie). The radar sensing device would have to possess a remote control access algorithm. This in effect would be triggered by a specific data stream or access code. Why anyone would allow a radar defense system to be remotely controlled or remotely serviced from a radar target is beyond me. Perhaps there was an algorithm in some stolen firmware that the Russians had not recognized. Perhaps a backdoor failsafe. Wonder if the Russians made all their solid state gear or they had some of it manufactured by the Koreans or Taiwanese, like everyone else nowadays. The leak here could be disinfo and if there was actual hacking done, perhaps it was done to their internal network (or the communication from their central control to the radar missile station). That way they would come at the individual missile defense radar station from a central network. That connection would be assumed to be secure and would have remote control algorithms and remote control maintenance routines. At any rate, my computer engineering skills are 12 years out of date.