Don’t ever forget that when the USA sends its surplus “wonder weapons” to another country these two things, 1) its never the newest stuff, it always older versions that have been sitting in storage yards and warehouses after being rotated out for the next generation or equipment of more recent manufacture and 2) a lot of “sensitive” (meaning “secret”) parts are removed or destroyed before being given to another country’s military.
Like, an example, So you might see SINGARS or ANCIP field radios, but there’s no guarantee that the “little black boxes whose name I have forgotten” used to load and synchronize the frequency hop and encryption protocols between the radios won’t be included. Meaning, OPFOR’s signals units will being able to listen to radio communications in plain text and have an easier time triangulating location.
Similar issues were happening with the HIMARS (or was it some other artillery pieces…) right? They were sent to Ukraine missing the “sensitive” equipment, which was the parts that aimed the weapon with precision.
Don’t ever forget that when the USA sends its surplus “wonder weapons” to another country these two things, 1) its never the newest stuff, it always older versions that have been sitting in storage yards and warehouses after being rotated out for the next generation or equipment of more recent manufacture and 2) a lot of “sensitive” (meaning “secret”) parts are removed or destroyed before being given to another country’s military.
Like, an example, So you might see SINGARS or ANCIP field radios, but there’s no guarantee that the “little black boxes whose name I have forgotten” used to load and synchronize the frequency hop and encryption protocols between the radios won’t be included. Meaning, OPFOR’s signals units will being able to listen to radio communications in plain text and have an easier time triangulating location.
Similar issues were happening with the HIMARS (or was it some other artillery pieces…) right? They were sent to Ukraine missing the “sensitive” equipment, which was the parts that aimed the weapon with precision.