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To: TobagoJack who wrote (22670)	9/17/2007 10:53:47 PM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 218131

You need the freq. of the radar. The Iranians don't switch theirs. US send drones, invading the airspace at times, coming from Iraq, but the Iranians still don't switch their radars on. No one would invade attack Iran without knowing the radar frequencies because you need to jam them. It can be that they invaded Syrian airspace and the Syrians switched their radars on. Why radar is important? U.S. Spying on Its Pals? (Corrected) By David Axe August 28, 2007 \| 11:00:00 PMCategories: Secret Squirrel The U.S. and India have become pretty close friends in recent years. But what's a little spying between best buds? Especially when there's an opportunity to figure out the secrets of the newest Russian-made fighter, the Su-30MKI? As usual, the excellent Air Forces Monthly mag has the scoop: When the Indian Air Force sent six Su-30MKI Flankers and a couple of Il-78MKI Midas tankers to RAF Waddington [air base] on June 28 [for a two-week exercise], the U.S. and U.K. airborne intelligence agencies were provided with a major coup. It gave them a chance to learn more about the radar frequencies of one of the most feared combat aircraft in the world -- even if it meant "eavesdropping" on their Indian friends. AFM says that a U.S. RC-135U electronic spy plane just happened to be en route to the U.K from the Middle East at the same time that the Indian aircraft were arriving, giving the U.S. jet a chance to use its radar-frequency measuring equipment to probe the Indians. Why does this matter? Because the Flanker's "Slot Back" N-011 radar will also be used by Chinese and Venezuelan jets -- and if you know its frequency, you can jam. it. The Americans weren't the only potential spies in the area. The Brits also happened to have a BAC-111 test plane, reportedly sporting frequency-detecting gear, in the area as the Indians flew mock dogfights with British Tornado fighters. The Indians have a reputation for paranoia (in this case justified), so the Su-30s weren't allowed to use their radars during the mock battles, instead flying only close-range, visual dogfights. But radars in standby mode still radiate, so unless the radars were completely switched off at all times before, during and after the exercise, it's likely that the U.S. and Great Britain scored some seriously valuable intel. Maybe the U.S. Air Force considers it revenge for the drubbing the Indians handed them a couple years back in the Cope India exercise, where some Alaska-based F-15s got repeatedly "shot down" by Indian