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unless army planes go undercover and need to transmit that data to keep disguise of a regular civil aircrafts
by dym_sh 5y ago
unless army planes go undercover and need to transmit that data to keep disguise of a regular civil aircrafts
- Kye 5y agoA plane that's obviously not what it claims to be to experienced observers will only make people more curious. edit: for example https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29152224 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29152224 It would be just another government plane, but they went and made it interesting.
- queuebert 5y agoDoes this happen?
- _joel 5y agoI'd assume so, even in shipping, NASA recently disguised the James Webb shipment to French Guiana as a commercial vessel and set it's arrival destination somewhere in europe. So it's highly likely this happens in military context with flights too.
- jjwiseman 5y agoThere is at least one U.S. Marshals aircraft that seems to intentionally broadcast a deceptive transponder ID. See https://twitter.com/tropicostation/status/1455982715480653824 https://twitter.com/tropicostation/status/145598271548065382... and https://twitter.com/tropicostation/status/1415462136512278529 https://twitter.com/tropicostation/status/141546213651227852...