Originally Posted by
sandy11
Hi everyone, my first post so please go gentle on me!
Regarding the Russian electronic countermeasures system Khibiny which was fitted to an SU-24 & supposedly knocked out the American Aegis radar on the USS Donald Cook. Would this have the same disabling affect on the Royal Navy Type 45 Samson radar system? Also which Russian aircraft are know to be fitted with the Richag AV (Khibiny) jammer?
Hope i am not totally out of my depth here but have just been wondering.
Many thanks as i have been reading the very informative & sometimes funny!
military threads on here for a while.
Sandy
What is more likely to have happened is that 27 sailors who were off duty discovered that there was (for some reason, perhaps having to do with the above mentioned kit being used) interference with their ability to log on to the net and post something silly on Farcebuk, following which they all filed grievances against the chain of command.
(Back when I got to visit the Black Sea on a warship, we got a lot of visits from Soviet and allied folks, to include a lovely fly-past by a Backfire, as we wandered about the 12 mile limit ... but that's over a generation ago. In those days, mail call was still a big deal.)