In the book version of Battlestar Galactica: The Living Legend, the colonials take out the battle computers of Gomorrah so the Cylon fighters wouldn't have coordinated SAM support.
In reality, 20 years ago, I was told that allied SAMs and allied fighters fought in different cooridors, that we didn't have that kind of control to tell our aircraft from theirs that cleanly.
Regardless of how it is now, here is the question on the board:
Given how electronics and computers constantly improve, would you trust the ability, assuming one had it, to have allied SAMs and fighters in the same cooridors to battle an enemy since it is at least plausible that the enemy might be able to defeat or turn that kind of control against the user?
----------------------------------------------------------------
("If the Soviets got their hands on ATAC, they could defeat our entire submarine ballistic missile system."--007
"Worse. They could order our subs to attack our own cities."--Defense Minister Bernard Grey, (w,stte), "For Your Eyes Only")
In reality, 20 years ago, I was told that allied SAMs and allied fighters fought in different cooridors, that we didn't have that kind of control to tell our aircraft from theirs that cleanly.
Regardless of how it is now, here is the question on the board:
Given how electronics and computers constantly improve, would you trust the ability, assuming one had it, to have allied SAMs and fighters in the same cooridors to battle an enemy since it is at least plausible that the enemy might be able to defeat or turn that kind of control against the user?
----------------------------------------------------------------
("If the Soviets got their hands on ATAC, they could defeat our entire submarine ballistic missile system."--007
"Worse. They could order our subs to attack our own cities."--Defense Minister Bernard Grey, (w,stte), "For Your Eyes Only")
Comment