Brian Ross wrote on Oct 6
th, 2018 at 6:15pm:
Bobby. wrote on Oct 6
th, 2018 at 4:03pm:
Brian Ross wrote on Oct 6
th, 2018 at 3:05pm:
No, I am not, Bobby.
I do not boast, i inform. I am proud of my Masters as it is in a rare subject - Defence Studies. It is why I know so much about Defence matters. Far more than dilettantes like you, Bobby.
OK Brian,
I will give you a chance to prove yourself.
In the quote made below:
https://edition.cnn.com/2018/10/05/asia/india-s400-deal-intl/index.html Quote:The Turkey deal has caused consternation in Washington, where a bipartisan group of lawmakers have attempted to block the transfer of the US' F-35 Joint Strike Fighters to Turkey, citing security concerns.
US defense officials believe once operational, the S-400 could be used to gather technical data on US designed fighter planes and that critical information could be passed to Moscow either intentionally or unintentionally through a back door in the Russian designed system.
India's purchase of the S-400 may result in the US refusing to sell "advanced fighter aircraft types" to Delhi in the future, said Layton.
What are they referring to when they say?
"intentionally or unintentionally through a back door in the Russian designed system."
I know the answer so - you tell us all and then I'll give the real answer.
It won't be on Google so don't bother looking.
Oh, dearie, dearie me. Well Bobby, what it means is that the Russians might get out of their S-400 system the stealth "signatures" of stealth systems if they were sold by the US to India. They could design their systems to accept a remote login from a system outside the Indian system and download all the information it has been either programmed with or it has detected when operating with these hypothetical systems that the US might sell to India. They could either do this overtly or covertly.
Personally, I think the yanks are going a bit over the top. Stealth systems are not the holy grail they are being made out to be. The Russians have this knowledge, indeed there is quite a bit of evidence that they were the first to propose such a system, way back in the 1970s. It appears to be their way of warning off the Russians as potential competitors. Tsk, tsk.
That's close but you never mentioned how they would do it?
Here's the answer.
The S-400 system would be designed to operate with many other S-400 systems including the S-300 system.
They have to communicate to do that.
All war machines have redundant comms. systems.
One way is to use ordinary radio communication in HF & UHF bands -
another is to use satellites.
I would not be surprised if the S-400 & S-300 use all 3 types.
The Indians would need to fly the F35 over a S-400 system to check the radar signature
& to see what radar bands give any signature.
The Russians may be able to clandestinely upload all the
data via satellite without the Indians knowing.
They could also do this in real time and use Russian satellites to
to look for any F35 signature obtainable from space -
Russian satellites.
Such information would be invaluable in a time of war.
In may very well be that a longer wavelength than is used
by the S-400 system would be better at picking it up.
The Russians will obtain this knowledge & defeat any stealth capability of the F35.
The Israelis recently took out targets in Syria using F35s.
No doubt - the Russians got lots of information from the S-300
systems stationed there.
Anyway Brian - your answer was incomplete so I'll give you a pass
but only 5 out of 10.