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And how difficult it is to identify a civilian plane vs a weapon? Few months back India shot down its own Helicopter and now Iran shot a whole air plane. And t
by mkagenius 7y ago
And how difficult it is to identify a civilian plane vs a weapon?
Few months back India shot down its own Helicopter and now Iran shot a whole air plane. And they spend gigantic amount of money on defense. How lacking is the technology!
- chii 7y ago> And how difficult it is to identify a civilian plane vs a weapon? if there is such a way, then your enemy planes can just as easily masquerade as a civilian craft and evade the missile!
- mkagenius 7y ago> easily masquerade as a civilian craft How does one do that easily?
- martin_a 7y agoWell, if it's only some "signature" that is broadcasted (or not), one could flip a switch and appear as a civilian aircraft.
- Nasrudith 7y agoThe way to make do it work is that a civilian profile would utterly suck as a missle - pbviously 9-11 demonstrated limitations of it. Air traffic control messages and flight paths could help with that but there are complications - especially when sending out radio communication could light themselves up as a target. Theoretically fiber optics and dedicated communication towers could separate the functions but there would be considerable logistical implications to that and well - even first world nations with a large military budget don't put that high of a priority on avoiding collateral damage.