(Peter Stickney) wrote in message ...

Becasue fighter airplanes, especially Soviet-built fighter airplanes,
didn't carry ELINT gear. Panoramic receivers back then ere heavy and
complicated beasts that required very specially trained operators.

Certainly the fighters did not have the equipment, but I would think
that the Soviets would have flown ELINT missions, or perhaps a ground
station picking up the emissions.

They'd also have to be looking at those frequencies, as well. Soviet
stuff at that time tended to be on the lower end of the mifrowave
scale, with most sets being in the VHF & UHF bands, and a few AAA Fire
Control systems being as high as S band.

The Soviets knew we liked X band for aircraft radars - it was
available in small quantities on the surplus market at the time.

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William Donzelli