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U.S. Ponders Georgian Air Defenses
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From Aerospace Daily and Defense Report 2008 August
U.S. analysts are beginning to address the question of why the Israeli Air Force was able to penetrate Syria’s Russian-made air defenses, while the Russian Air Force was not able to finesse Georgia’s Russian-made air defenses. That Russian-built and designed air defenses are exploitable was shown in the Israeli Air Force’s total shutdown of Syrian air defenses prior to bombing a suspected nuclear site last year (Aerospace DAILY, May 2). But Russia apparently didn’t have or didn’t use the digital keys to unlock the Georgians’ network. There are indications from U.S. analysts that the relative simplicity – meaning far less networking – of the Georgian air defenses made it tougher to knock out the system all at once. Nevertheless, theories abound about the apparent effectiveness of Georgia’s air defense (Aerospace DAILY, Aug. 12) that run from incompetence on the part of the Russians to links to Israel’s sophisticated electronics companies and their aggressive military export goals. During the months before the conflict, the Russians claimed to have shot down several Hermes 450 drones (supplied by Israeli-based Elbit) with fighter aircraft stationed, at least temporarily, in South Ossetia. Israeli companies also supported Georgia’s Su-25 modernization program.
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