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Originally posted by MPJay
AFIAK the Patriot recently has been improved with Russian tech, the US bought an S-300 system from some country and had a look at what made it tick.....the US has been doing reverse engineering of Russian systems for decades.
Originally posted by MPJay
AFIAK the Patriot recently has been improved with Russian tech, the US bought an S-300 system from some country and had a look at what made it tick.....the US has been doing reverse engineering of Russian systems for decades.
US acquires S-300 from Croatia
Citing the Croatian newspaper Zagreb Vjesni, Geostrategy Direct reports that the U.S. acquired a Russian air and missile defense system earlier this year. While the report identifies the system only as “S-300,” it is most likely the S-300PMU, more capable than the S-300V. The weapons system was reportedly shipped to America earlier this year.
Update: Croatia was reported to have acquired an S-300P (SA-10 Grumble) system in 1994 from an unidentified country, variously identified on different occasions by Jane’s as Ukraine, Russia, or Israel—towards the end of its war with Yugoslavia, and therefore in violation of an international arms embargo. The system, reportedly incomplete, is said to have been shipped by airplane between August 10 and December of 1994. The SA-10 missile tubes were included in a military parade in Zagreb in May of 1995. In July 2000, it was reported that Croatia would return two of the S-300PMU systems to its unidentified country of origin.
Originally posted by Seekerof
Considering the case of stolen PATRIOT technology being used, trnaslated, and/or incorporated into the S-300, these engineers may have simply been trying to see how it was accomplished, etc. Certainly does not imply that we are stealing the tech from Russia! And definately not like we are trying to "reverse engineer" a space craft so we can build one. Bet.
seekerof
[edit on 10-3-2005 by Seekerof]
Originally posted by Stealth Spy
Russia are very soon gonna deploy the S-400.
check out this thread Russia to Deploy S-400 Missile Defenses
The S-500 is in development.
It really does not matter to russia if the us copy some of their older stuff.Russia are way ahead. This time its america that has to do the catching up.
the us play dirty all the time, and paint a honourable picture of themselves all the time.
Originally posted by Lucretius
JSF is unfortunately a very poor fighter... I would not trust it against advanced enemy aircraft personally... it's more geared towards strike and wild weasel roles.
The Patriot role in OIF was defense against tactical ballistic missiles; it had no assigned air defense role, but it did have a self-defense role against anti-radiation missiles. The Patriot deployment was substantial, involving up to 40 U.S. fire units and 22 fire units from four coalition nations. Two types of Patriot interceptor missiles were used: the improved PAC-2 missile, which is the traditional Patriot interceptor; and a new hit-to-kill missile, the PAC-3. Both were used with success in OIF, with the bulk of the engagements falling to the PAC-2. All nine enemy tactical ballistic missiles that threatened areas designated for Patriot defense were engaged. Eight of these engagements were observed by enough other sensors to conservatively declare them successes; the ninth engagement is judged to be a probable success. None of the attacking tactical ballistic missiles caused any damage or loss of life to the coalition forces.
www.acq.osd.mil...
"Reverse engineering" is a semi-vague concept.
The buying or taking of a S-300 system and tearing it down while analyzing it may be viewed as a 'comparison' of sorts rather than a true and full blown "reverse engineering." These engineers may have simply been seeking to find what 'stolen' PATRIOT technologies had been transferred into the system, how they were compromised or how they were changed and then utilized. The scenerio of "reverse engineering" isn't simply me tearing something apart while analysizing it to see how it works. There are comparision ratios, etc.
Considering the case of stolen PATRIOT technology being used, trnaslated, and/or incorporated into the S-300, these engineers may have simply been trying to see how it was accomplished, etc. Certainly does not imply that we are stealing the tech from Russia! And definately not like we are trying to "reverse engineer" a space craft so we can build one. Bet.
seekerof
[edit on 10-3-2005 by Seekerof]
between the late 1970s and 1985 nobody less but the chief of the Phazotron Design Bureau was supplying all possible information about such projects R-23, R-24, R-33, R-27, and R-60, S-300, as well as about fighter-interceptor aircraft like MiG-29, MiG-31, and Su-27 and their radars directly to the CIA
Originally posted by rogue1
^^^^ read the thread It was about the S-300 being a copy of the Patriot, nothing else. There is more eveidence to suggest it was, than wasn't. Can you provide anything which states it wasn't, because you haven't so far.
So for now, I'll take the information provided in links rather than your uninformative ramble
Show some evidence you ignoramus.