Turkey threatens to attack Israel, reconfigures F-16's to identify 'Israeli targets' as 'enemy'
Maybe it's time to send the Mossad to Ankara....Turkey has reclassified all Israeli 'targets' as hostile on its American-supplied F-16 fighter planes. The orders to do so came directly from Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Turkey has developed a new radar system for its US-made F-16 fighter jets that will allow them to fire at Israeli targets, Ankara's Star Gazete reported on Tuesday. The orders to modify the system reportedly came directly from Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's office.No comment yet from the White House.
The new radar system – Identification Friend or Foe (IFF) – is a defensive command and control system developed by Turkey's Military Electronics Industry (ASELSAN) for the nation's air force and navy. It is slated to replace a similar US version which is in use today.
The US system is comprised of lists of "friends" and "foes." The system's settings are designed to prevent pilot error as well, to an extent, disabling the ability to fire at "friendly" targets even by mistake. The US system identified Israel as a 'friend,' thus preventing Turkish fighter jets from firing at them automatically.
The new system, however, allows Turkey control the "friend or foe" list independently.
The Turkish IFF system is scheduled to be mounted on all Turkish fighter jets, military vessels and submarines in the near future.
Labels: Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkish obsession with Israel
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 4:27 PM
2 Comments:
Hi Carl.
Off course we realise this means even before the Marmara crisis Turkey was planning to attack Israel, given that it took two years to develop the new system.
Is this significant for the F-35 program as Turkey is a tier 1 or 2 partner? Wouldn't this require modifications to be performed by the US in the US and if so, would not EVERY other partner now have a case that their tweaks must be embedded as well, including, dare we say, the Dreaded Zionist Entity? (Cue theremin!)
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