• merthyr1831@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    4 days ago

    actually hilarious that the navy saw a radar signature for a fighter jet whilst off the coast of Yemen and decided “yep that’s definitely a hostile target” actual smoothbrain navy.

    Don’t F-18s have IFF too? Fuck sake lmao

      • MarmiteLover123 [comrade/them, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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        4 days ago

        If an hostile drone pops up in one of those corridors close to friendly aircraft, and it’s fired upon, could it be possible for a friendly aircraft to get caught in the crossfire, with either a terminal active radar seeker or terminal infrared heat seeker locking onto the friendly aircraft instead of the hostile drone? I don’t think those terminal seekers are connected to IFF, which is why a lot of these missile systems involve using both the semi active radar homing (which is connected to IFF) alongside the active radar or infrared seekers (not connected to IFF) for terminal guidance. That’s my hypothesis at the moment, that Ansarallah exploited something there after the F/A-18F took off.

        Either that, or someone on the missile cruiser left the CIWS on fully automatic operation by mistake, after being shot at by missiles and drones, and it lit up the F/A-18F right after takeoff. As far as I’m aware, CIWS is not connected to IFF.

        Interested to know what you think of this.

    • 30_to_50_Feral_PAWGs [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      4 days ago

      Don’t F-18s have IFF too?

      Not only that, but all military aircraft are outfitted with an enhanced version of IFF that includes an encrypted challenge/response that uses a rotating series of codes. IFF codes are loaded as part of preflight checks, so either they ignored it, or somebody really fucked up.