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There is probably a way they know his, but can you really fire a missile at something on a computer screen miles away and be fully confident the thing you are s
by LandR 6y ago
There is probably a way they know his, but can you really fire a missile at something on a computer screen miles away and be fully confident the thing you are shooting at is enemy military aircraft? And not say a civilian aircraft ?
I guess if its going fast enough its almost certianly a military aircraft. Can the radars in the military jets identity the type of the aircraft before it gets blown out of the sky?
- Pelic4n 6y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identification_friend_or_foe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identification_friend_or_foe
- DuskStar 6y agoThat lets you distinguish friend from not-friend, but not enemy from airliner.
- DuskStar 6y agoAnother way is to announce a no-fly zone and then assume anything within the zone is hostile. (Yes, civilian planes can still fly there, but they've literally been warned at that point) I assume this would happen pretty quickly when a war went hot.
- greedo 6y agoRadars on the F-15 can determine the type of turbine on an aircraft...