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Old 26th December 2001 | 17:19
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CUNIM

 
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The main difference between the civil and military systems would be the use of primary radar - expensive to install - and secondary radar. Whilst Civil ATC can see all transponding aircraft, military need primary to identify non-transponders. The price appears to be way OTT for a civil or mil system. Question - with eight aircraft in their air force, do they really need this expensive toy? I have seen this sort of thing happen in other countries where they are conned into buying an unnecessarily complicated system and then spend ten years paying for it.
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