You must think in Russian
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If something important was actually captured it would been kept hush hush and hurried out to NATO for analysis. The fact that they are talking about it indicates it’s not the latest Russian system, and confirms the hypothesis that the Russians are using older systems in Ukraine.
very old news ... and the Ukes just got the command module portion, the least important part ...
Again?
German knew we had their code machine. They didn’t think we had their code.
Apples and oranges.
In WW2 we needed the Germans to keep using their code so we could break it and find their submarines.
Today we need the Russians to stop using their ECM capability because they can’t replace it. If they don’t stop using it it’ll become a death trap when we ID the RF emissions and tell everyone how to target them.
There is precedent. "Congressman 'credited' with sinking up to ten submarines."
I don't think publicizing the capture is a big deal. The Russians must have known they had it. I worked with an optical Engineer (World War II veteran) who later worked for Norden. His boss at Norden was a German, who said that all during the war he had Norden Bombsight on his desk, despite the extraordinary care Americans took to safeguard it.
Precision bombing was not the German's style, and there was little they could do to counter it, other than what they were doing anyway, creating smoke, and lighting decoy fires. As a public relations coup, I think the value of publicizing it outweighs the possible loss of intelligence value. The Americans will study it to learn how to counter it, and probably not share the information with their allies, with the possible exception of the Five Eyes.
You must think in Russian
all smoke!!
all smoke!!
Seriously Andrei, you've lost a secret electronic warfare system?