This channel is pure gold. Thanks a lot for the clear explanations :)

@KristianDjukic

4 ай бұрын

indeed

Worked on this stuff back in the 60s. USAF Air Traffic Control Radar Maintenance. Remember a lot about the radar not so much the IFF.

Very insightful as always. I had no clue before about mode 5 and the fact that M4 is decommissioned. Thanks, Mike!

Excellent presentation! Clear and concise in teaching valuable knowledge for airspace participants. I appreciate it as a private pilot🙂

@TheOpsCenterByMikeSolyom

8 ай бұрын

Awesome. I'm glad to see there are like minded people out there.

Dude. Headed to OTS soon and UPT/ENJJPT soon after. These videos are absolutely phenomenal. Thank you sir

Thanks a million For this pristine prestige clear well done well said well explained...explanation God bless you

I worked on the E2-C aircraft in the 80's. I used to walk around on the flight deck of the USS Independence and USS Forrestal with a box called a Sniffer, to check that all of the planes Mode IV was working, and had the right code before leaving the deck.

Another great one! Thanks, Mike

Excellent explanation as always, thank you so much for these videos!

i really appreciate the in depth information this channel provides especially the topics behind the usual

Thanks so much! Great video, happy to have found your channel!

Thank you for these videos! They are invaluable!

These vids are so good. Thanks for making them

As always excellent video.

Great video!

I wish I had this video a few months ago when I was reading up on this stuff.

Another great video.

Those mysterious black boxes in the cockpit make a whole lot more sense now. Would an IFF reply or lack of reply constitute sufficient evidence for a positive friendly or hostile identification?

@TheOpsCenterByMikeSolyom

9 ай бұрын

The answer to your question is not a short one. As it so happens it's also the topic of the next video. In that video we'll go down the checklist describing how distant aircraft are IDed.

@kerbalairforce8802

6 ай бұрын

IFF should be called "Friendly or Unknown" because it can't tell if you are an enemy by itself.

PLease som Falcon BMS content. Really liking the content.

Question? Are there any hardware differences between friendly radar and foe radar? Do they ever change the mega hertz rating?

@kerbalairforce8802

6 ай бұрын

15 year Avionics mechanic here: Every time our EW systems detect a new radar, we investigate and log it with whatever machine it's on. A terrain/weather radar on a C-130 is going to be tuned to be good at that, and an air track radar on an F-16 is going to be tuned to be good at that job. Now, there are EW decoys that intentionally pretend to be another aircraft, and that complicates things, but we can watch a "C-130" going mach 1, and figure out that it's not a "C-130". I hope that helps!

Wouldn't Mode 4 have been very susceptible to brute-force attacks, where a computer could simply try every one of the 4096 possible codes?

@rasherbilbo452

8 ай бұрын

Interrogation code mode 4 is layered under encryption, you'd need to crack that also, so no.

How you learn this animation plz tell me❤

Do they use this system on drones? Like the Iranian drone they thought was us? If so, there's no way they didn't know that wasn't our drone.