Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!sri-unix!cdh@BBN-UNIX
From: cdh@BBN-UNIX@sri-unix.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.aviation
Subject: Re: Russian fighter query
Message-ID: <4951@sri-arpa.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 8-Sep-83 09:32:10 EDT
Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.4951
Posted: Thu Sep  8 09:32:10 1983
Date-Received: Wed, 14-Sep-83 19:25:41 EDT
Lines: 17

From:  Carl D. Howe <cdh@BBN-UNIX>

My impression is that the Russian fighters are not provided with the
radios to transmit on 121.5 or 243.0.  The Russians have recently
been claiming otherwise though, so no one knows.  However, I seem
to remember the Foxbat that was flown to Japan seemed to be lacking
said radios.

The Russian fighter transmissions WERE encrypted.  The Japanese (quite
possibly with our help) just decrypted them.  In today's Boston Globe,
there's an article saying that the Russians changed all the fighter
frequencies and codes after the Reagan broadcast; the Japanese now say
they can only decode 60% of what the Russians are saying now in the area.
However, Japanese intelligence believed the release of the tapes to be
worthwhile, despite the expected Russian reaction.

Carl