[ARC5] "What's Old is New..."

[Jay Coward]

Wasn't there a call for R-390A's during the Gulf War because comms were getting fried by high levels of atmospheric static discharge? Or is that urban or sub-urban legend?
Jay KE6PPF
 
 
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From: David Stinson <arc5 at ix.netcom.com>
To: milsurplus <milsurplus at mailman.qth.net>; ARC-5 <arc5 at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Tue, Aug 8, 2017 6:13 am
Subject: [ARC5] "What's Old is New..."



Interesting article.   After several debilitating “hacks” and spoofs of their 
complex, IP-based, computer dependent Comm, Command and Control 
contributed to incidents like the Iranian capture of two U.S. Navy craft
in the Persian Gulf and U.S. Drones being spoofed into enemy hands,
 the U.S. military is investigating non-computer (and thus unhackable)
 Radio-based communication and  navigation systems.
Also- the threat of an EMP and/or Anti-Sat attack as a “first strike”
is now seen as a real and potentially crippling threat.
 
Seems my Star Trek hero, Scotty, was right:

     “The more complicated they make the plumbing,
      the easier it is to stop-up the drain.”
 
"What's old is new again." Wonder if they will "discover" the simple, 
very cheap and effective mode that can get a message through
 when all the fancy computer stuff is hacked or fried: Morse Code.
 
Article:
http://tinyurl.com/y8cpjlph

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