Wouldn't it be amusing if all these signs and portents showing that we are sending waves of invisible and undetectable fighters and bombers to the middle east were all just a facade? I used to have to convince operations specialists and some more senior officers that radar displays showing only IFF returns were not terribly useful since enemy warplanes would not be transmitting IFF and maybe it would be a good idea to hold some training so I did not keep going into the Combat Information Center and finding all the displays showing only IFF sources and then had another boss who firmly believed if we added AIS to our system we could track all surface threats even if the radars did crap out. He seriously thought that we used AIS to track bad guys.....................................
the same way people seem to think they are tracking our military planes simply because they see a transponder making its way across the ocean.
I sure hope out Intel guys do a better job but they haven't impressed me much since December 7, 1941.
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