jhungary
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Whoosh, his point went straight thru your headIf the US-claimed story of F-22s outperforming ancient F-4s in international airspace helps you sleep at night and proves Iranian ADS is useless then good for you
The point is not F-22 outperform F-4 is the problem, the problem is Iranian GDS did not detect the F-22 that was close to the MQ-1 is the problem. That's the weakness of Iranian ADS, it saw 3 instead of 5 blips which is what it should have been.
The issue here is the CIC (Combat Information Centers) within a GDS did not detect the F-22 in flight, they didn't even know that they were there, hence the Suprise when the F-22 pull up underneath the F-4. Air Defence is a complex network of Ground Station (CIC, TOC and so on) and interception asset, CIC provide real time battle deposition and that deposition enters the command-and-control structure, to which the commander can decide the appropriate action for each threat. And the problem for this particular incident is, the GDS only detected the MQ-1, not the chaser. Which mean if this is a battle scenario, you launch your F-4 into the dark, thinking this is only a MQ-1 but instead you did not see the 2 tailing F-22, your F-4 is going to get ambushed.
And that also lead to another issue, if you cannot see the F-22 on your ground station, what if the F-22 see you first, if they take out that GDS first, and the ADS in the entire area is going to go dark. How are you going to fend off airstrike without GDS to look for threats and deal with interception? Are you just going to send your aircraft into destination unknown and depends on their limited radar to repel an attack?? that's like fighting with your eye blindfolded.