[UNSDB] Re: Just in case someone's interested: Shadow Cloaking Device and IFF

> About the only Things I have experience with are the novels(which dont
even
> agree with themselves in some cases) a few episodes of the 1st generation
and
> the RPG by palladium. But I also have alot of experience with military
> equipment and engineering details.  If I remember right, the SCD was
> developed before the SDF-3 launched. It was designed against Zentraedi
> sensors to operate like a modern day Radar Jammind device. It was later
> modified for p~ sensors after it was found that the Invid  relied on p~
> sensors for targeting.

That is the first time I heard this. Where did you get that info?

> This means that, like current day fighters, the VTs have sensor jamming
> devices. and they are already adjusted to give off freind-foe-identifyer
> signals that cant be scrambled by the jammers.(foul weather and sandstorms
> will play havoc though) These are in use today. The SCD had p~ emitions
> added, but that shouldnt effect any other systems that are already in
place.
> Besides, R&D (research and developement) wouldnt have OKed the project for
> mainstream use if it interfered  with the ability to locate friendly
forces.
> of course this is just MHO.
Hmm, the discussion on RT.com went on and got pretty interesting. The bottom
line was that theoretically, it would be possible to track a cloaked
fighter, but the goal in combining IFF and SCD is to make that possibility
so hard to achieve that it is negligable.

On a side note I learned a lot about the different methods to detect stealth
fighters at all, like High Definition Doppler-Radar that focuses not on the
fighter but the  turbulence created by the plane. Interesting huh?

But I guess that with the Invid one does not have to worry anyway as they
focus on normal and P~ emissions.

Comments?

-Burn

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