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2002-11-20 Axis of Evil

Coalition aircraft hit military targets...

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Posted by Fred Pruitt 2002-11-20 11:39 am|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 You set your radar at a distance from your control facility and manage it by wire. Then when we bomb the radar, there are no personnel there.

Part of the whole maskirovka thing. Which batteries are controlled by which radar and which radars are controlled by which facilities?

Posted by Chuck 2002-11-20 11:42:28|| [www.simmins.org] 2002-11-20 11:42:28|| Front Page Top

#2 The Chinese wired Saddam's air defense radars together with a fiber optic network. Feeds back to Air Defence HQ for better control. We've been hitting nodes of this for some time in order to degrade the network. That's what this reads like.

Posted by Steve 2002-11-20 11:56:10|| 2002-11-20 11:56:10|| Front Page Top

#3 Yes. The Chicoms supposedly used Alcatel optronics and Sumitomo fiber shipped from 2 allies in the war on terror -- France and Japan.

Posted by John B. 2002-11-20 12:41:12|| 2002-11-20 12:41:12|| Front Page Top

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