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Mr. Luddite[_4_]

On 4/17/2018 5:27 PM, wrote:
On Tue, 17 Apr 2018 16:12:53 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

Some people have speculated that the Russians actually fired some
today at a Syrian air base to try and figure out why the defense
systems didn't work last Friday.

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Two words: Electronic Countermeasures (ECM), with maybe a bit of
stealth technology for good luck.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_countermeasure

That should give the Russians, and their client states, something to
worry about.

I think our technology is very advanced in these systems.
I actually had the opportunity to do some work on a system
used to optically confuse incoming missiles by generating
"pulses" of energy at certain wavelengths that made the aircraft
appear to be somewhere else in the sky.

Not sure if they are employed in Tomahawk cruise missiles though.
They might be.

One of the advantages of the Tomahawk is that it flies to it's
destination at about 550 mph but at very low altitudes. Depending on
the terrain, it can fly less than 50 feet above the ground, putting
it in the "grass" for air search radar.