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From: scott@graft.Berkeley.EDU (Scott Silvey)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Radars in Fighters, AWACS, etc.
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Date: 22 Mar 91 04:45:32 GMT
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From: scott@graft.Berkeley.EDU (Scott Silvey)
daveg@tiberius.clearpoint.com (Dave Goldblatt) writes:
|>    From: stevew@wyse.wyse.com (Steve Wilson x2580 dept303)
|> 
|>    If such is
|>    the case then it is done via data links.  It would be quite reasonable
|>    for something that is already making alot of radio noise like AWACS
|>    to also send out an encrypted data stream in the clear that the planes
|>    received and re-displayed to the weapons officer.
|> 
|> This is what the F-14 does.  It has the ability to receive radar information
|> from an E-2C in the region, and thus "run silent". :-)  Very convienient
|> when the 'Cat is skimming the wavetops sneaking up on someone!

Interesting ... how is this done?  Is it just directional information?

Is this a current tactic for F-14's (terrain-level flight)?!  I always
  thought F-14's much prefered high-altitudes except, perhaps, when
  attempting to avoid radar missiles.


The data-link concept that Steve Wilson mentions above is currently being
  developed for the navy.  AirForce AWACS already employ something along
  these lines.  The idea is to enable fighters to see everything the
  ships and AWACS can see without having to emit radar signals themselves.
  The data encryption is done through an indecipherable spread-spectrum
  signal.

I think the Marines want it too, but I'm not sure what radar equipped 
  aircraft they use other than FA-18's.


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