Nesher 628 Posted July 15, 2021 Iron Dome almost knocked out Israeli F-15 during recent Gaza fighting F-15s On FIRE! US Air Force’s F-15E Strike Eagle Spotted With A ‘Fiery Tail’ At UK Military Base – Watch Damn x 2 😮 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
+Flamesky 16 Posted July 15, 2021 I read the following! Looks like a burn through on one of the convergent or divergent segments. NOT a good thing, a lot of stuff get fried! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
+Gepard 11,296 Posted July 15, 2021 The Iron Dome incident shows, that the american made Friend and Foe systems still have problems to work properly. Its not new. Its known since Vietnam war. You'd think they'd had enough time to sort out the problem. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
macelena 1,070 Posted July 16, 2021 5 hours ago, Gepard said: The Iron Dome incident shows, that the american made Friend and Foe systems still have problems to work properly. Its not new. Its known since Vietnam war. You'd think they'd had enough time to sort out the problem. Too little margin of error. They might have the fighters and the SAMs integrated via datalink, but have lag, more so if there is a lot of EM noise around, or have interrogators in each targeting radar, but they could take a while to hail the fighter, have the fighter IFF recognize the call, answer, and discern it over different echoes, since there could be rockets in the air at the same time, with a lot of automation involved. Could be that Iron Dome was not designed to work in a tactical environment with friendlies on flight, but then they could hit airliners even more easily. Either way, i guess most of the electronics involved in this would be Israeli. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Nesher 628 Posted July 16, 2021 @macelena, the Al-Jazeera tower that was downed, had anti-GPS and (I assume) other electronic countermeasures which tried to interfere with IDF's operations... that's why it got knocked down.. so in today's fights, I won't be so sure that we make out all the electronics in the area 😅 In any case, since there are a lot of assets in a very small area, errors are bound to happen... unfortunately in the previous conflict, we had a few blue on blue fire which resulted in several KIAs and casualties Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
macelena 1,070 Posted July 16, 2021 (edited) 3 hours ago, Nesher said: @macelena, the Al-Jazeera tower that was downed, had anti-GPS and (I assume) other electronic countermeasures which tried to interfere with IDF's operations... that's why it got knocked down.. so in today's fights, I won't be so sure that we make out all the electronics in the area 😅 In any case, since there are a lot of assets in a very small area, errors are bound to happen... unfortunately in the previous conflict, we had a few blue on blue fire which resulted in several KIAs and casualties I meant the electronics used by the IDF for IFF, I kind of refered to Hamas EW, among other things, when i mentioned the noise in the evironment Edited July 16, 2021 by macelena Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
