Posted on 11/03/2019 12:43:03 PM PST by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget
Back when I was I nAir Defense (just after we’d advancer form coordinated rock throwing) we kept our radars silent to deny info on them from others.
Woo and Yay.
Or they just don’t work.
What good is defensive radar if it is turned off?
Condition EMCON. Ooraah!
“Or they just dont work.”
The Russians used a lot of “homemade shit” to defeat the Germans in WW II. Russians are a brilliant people who have been traumatized by history and geography. If they want something to work they can make it work as well as to be maintained, serviced, and used by any random drunken peasant.
You turn it on when you really need it. We never did in my sefvice (we did pack up to go to Israel in ‘74, but didn’t- I think Nixon just wanted the Russians to think about that)
For other reasons we and Israel are no threat to their bases.
I guess the homemade drones that are are handled by other means.
What good is defensive radar if it is turned off?
Pretty good, actually, when equipped with a Tracking Adjunct (telescope) System.
AFAIK the HAWK was never used by us in action (Imptoved HAWK, I believe was used by Israel in action)
Scuttlebutt was that Marines used it in Nam.
Back when I was I nAir Defense (just after wed advancer form coordinated rock throwing) we kept our radars silent to deny info on them from others.
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There is some logic to that. But you need to answer a simple question:
How do you know when to turn them on?
General aviation radar at distance. You leave your run of the mill systems on where they expect them. As soon as they see something you turn on the systems.
Intelligence, threat status stuff, diplomacy, spies... that sort of stuff.
I was in Fla, Cuban jets would overfly and we didn’t target them. Also in Germany- don’t think sov Union ever overflew us.
Yeah, a surprise attack is possible, but other people decided how likely that was.
My memory is a littlw fuzzy, but I think the big deal for us was keeping them from knowing which of many frequencies we were using.
Today’s radars are very different I’m sure, but operational info would still be protected.
The Vulcan platoon and battery I led had no radars.......or computers.
Debka is such an unreliable source it’s useless to believe what they report.
debka is an Israeli military propaganda source that bases nearly all of their articles on anonymous sources ...
Debka. Nuff’ said.
Many of the ‘Lifers’ in Hawk batteries came from the Vulcan.
Wiki says it was last used in Desert Storm.
Debka is not an always reliable source, granted, but they do often get stuff right. It is worth seeing what they are saying. Base descisions on it, NO. Keep an eye on it, yes.
” ..a tracking adjunct (telescope) system”
Is that the same or part of the quasi nemonic microfractional posi nucleic recombiner like the one used in the Captain Video series (season 4, episode 8 1953)?
I remember watching that with my pal Ed Norton.
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