Should Congress Prohibit Parts Sales For U.S. Arms Reprogrammed To See Our Allies As Enemies?
19th September 2011
Hint: Yes.
According to Turkish press, as quoted by Ynet, the Turkish air force will be fitting its F-16 fighter jets with new IFF systems, which will not treat the signal from an Israeli IFF transponder as friendly, and will thus facilitate more efficient attack. The F-16’s original IFF system is made to US/NATO specifications, and identifies an Israeli IFF response as friendly. This creates an inconvenient requirement to override the system’s restrictions preventing engagement of friendly aircraft, in order to fire on an Israeli plane.
Why Turkey is a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization has never been clear to me.
September 19th, 2011 at 18:57
*shrug* Where there’s a market, someone will supply it. You can’t expect the Turks to follow in lock-step with us as to whom they consider friend and whom they consider foe.
They’ll just buy them from the French; those whores will spread for anybody with the coin.