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...windshield, in phosphorescent green and orange, is a mass of essential data. An F-15 pilot flashing over the Bekaa could have watched the plotted positions of four separate enemy aircraft and also have been alerted by a flashing light and beeping in his headset if an SA-6 radar locked on to his jet. The F-15's computerized electronic countermeasure (ECM) equipment would have taken over, perhaps electronically "disguising" the F-15 to Syrian radar, then determining which enemy threat was the most immediate. If a jet-propelled SA-6 were fired, traveling toward the Israeli plane...
Israel's air-to-ground missiles are also formidable examples of Star Wars electronics. The U.S.-built Shrike missiles are designed specifically to knock out ground-based antiaircraft batteries such as the SA-6s. From as far away as 25 miles, the Shrikes' radar-seeking device can be tuned precisely to the SAM'S frequency probably recorded by Israeli drone planes flown over the area before the strikes. The Shrike missiles could then home on the target, effectively turning the enemy missile control system against itself...
Consequently, the commanders opted for a pause that would allow them to pick off the softest points on the Argentine perimeter-radar posts, ammunition dumps and artillery concentrations-while trying to draw enemy troops out of their prepared positions onto open ground, where they could be surrounded. About 1,000 of the occupying troops in Port Stanley were believed to be elite marines, the best fighters Argentine Commander Menendez had at his disposal. The remainder were relatively untrained conscripts who might prove to be vulnerable to such tactics, although, as one British paratrooper said, "a gun in the hands...
...British radar failed to spot the low-flying Argentines. The Rapier surface-to-air missiles that British ground forces had used with great success at the Port San Carlos beachhead were already ashore at Fitzroy, but they had not yet been set up on hillsides overlooking the estuary. Although both ships would have been unloaded in another hour or so, at the time of the attack the Sir Galahad was still packed with most of its full complement of 68 crewmen and, according to some accounts, as many as 500 troops waiting to go ashore. Those on board...
...British losses at Fitzroy once again highlighted the major weakness of their task force: the lack of an effective airborne early warning system similar to the AW ACS used by the U.S. The Falklands conflict erupted only a few months before the British were scheduled to install a comparable radar system in their Nimrod Mark 3 reconnaissance aircraft. About six weeks ago, London asked Washington for the loan of an AW ACS to repair that important deficiency, but the Reagan Administration refused. The reason: Washington's insistence that American servicemen, who would be necessary to operate the system...