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"Ed Rasimus" wrote
Foggy memory trying to recall things. Best I recollect (although I might be wrong) was that the IFF/SIF had cockpit control of modes 1, 2, 3 and C. Don't recall that Mode-4 was cockpit controllable. In the F-4 the coding was done in the nosegear well on the ground with a plunger-like device. Trivia alert Probably had a "zero, a/b, hold switch", and a caution lite. there was two codes a-today b-tomorrow, and the hold kept your plunger data on a hot turn, while the caution lite blinked when someone interrogated you, but your box couldn't decode it, and it stayed on solid if you lost your crypto (plunger data) or the computer went TU. Usually the blinking lite is the worst, because it means the Patriot battery is now trying to figure out a second way to ID you |
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