thankfully wildly wrong, DR. Otherwise a country would have no way of detecting any enemy air activity since they are known not to squawk ATC codes for some bizarre reason
Radar is designed to work by bouncing off a reflective surface and does NOT require SSR.
No argument there. But read what I said:
it would only have been trackable while within range of SSR
I didn't say that SSR was required to track it, but if it's out of range of SSR (say 200nm max), then it's surely beyond the range of primary radar, too. Therefore not trackable.