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- From: hallam@zeus02.desy.de (Phillip M. Hallam-Baker)
- Subject: Re: Scudbusters
- Message-ID: <1992Aug17.081315.20359@dscomsf.desy.de>
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- References: <1992Aug14.155840.8387@cbnewsc.cb.att.com> <1992Aug14.224611.19196@ennews.eas.asu.edu>
- Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 08:13:15 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug14.224611.19196@ennews.eas.asu.edu>,
- makowsky@enuxha.eas.asu.edu (David Makowsky) writes:
-
- |>In article <1992Aug14.155840.8387@cbnewsc.cb.att.com>
- |>rats@cbnewsc.cb.att.com (Morris the Cat) writes:
- |>
- |># In <1992Aug14.150800.5879@cs.brown.edu> Danny Keren states:
- |>
- |># |#Remind me, is this the same Israeli AF that executed the infamous
- |># |#attack against the slow-moving, non-stealthy, and ill-defended
- |>USS
- |># |#Liberty? A ship the Israelis couldn't identify after hours of
- |>recon,
- |># |#and didn't after three attack waves? Or so goes the official
- |>story...
- |>
- |># |#Seems to me that either the Israelis aren't so hot at identifying
- |>and
- |># |#killing targets after all, or that the Liberty story as told in
- |>public
- |># |#is wrong. Take your choice.
- |>
- |># |Mistakes happen in war, even to the best and most expereinced
- |>air-forces.
- |>
- |># Hmm, interestingly enough, I happened across a letter written by a
- |># member of the USS Liberty Veterans Association several years ago
- |>[NOT
- |># James Ennes] to a magazine. He makes it clear that ECM pods carried
- |>|># onboard Mirage IIIs (I believe that's the designation of the
- |>Israeli
- |># Mirages.) were set for U.S. Navy communications frequencies, AND
- |>WERE
- |># NOT WIDEBAND JAMMING.
- |>
- |> Do you (or perhaps the author of that letter) know anything about
- |>the laws of physics, radio frequencies, military intelligence,
- |>counter
- |>intelligence?
-
- Perhaps someone could publish a list of these "US Navy frequencies"? It
- sounds awfuly decent of them to stick to the same ones all the time. I
- read in Spycatcher that we Brits are dastardly enough to keep changing
- ours so as to avoid jamming! Perhaps the US should consider buying some
- of our British Communications gear with these modern features?
-
- BTW what particular logic was there in setting a post about Israeli
- jamming to US distribution only?
-
- For what it's worth I don't think that Jakes comparison of the Osirak
- incident with the Gulf war is appropriate. Comparing single missions
- with battles or entire wars is futile.
-
-
- Phill Hallam-Baker
-