Originally posted by lasersailor184 Listen, in every modern day plane there is an IFF coder. What you do is send a message to the plane, if it's friendly, it will send a message back.If i'm flying over a friendly Military that's the most powerful in the world, the IFF coder is the first thing i would check.Then I would check the ejection seat.
Originally posted by GScholz Indeed. What I find strange is that the Patriot battery was the only platform that detected the Tornado as hostile. That is an assumption on my part, but I think other planes and SAM sites would come forward and corroborate the Patriot crew's story if the Tornado IFF was malfunctioning/switched off/wrong code.
Originally posted by AKIron I just reread that article. It borders on dishonesty. It doesn't claim that there is a fault in that specific system but implies it. They blame the crew of that system for using it while knowing that all Patriot systems are faulty.The US Army stated that the plane that was shot down was not transmitting an IFF signal.This sort of manipulative bs has no other purpose than to divide. Anyone not see that?