re: #412 John Hughes

Come off it. The S-400’s IFF is going to go: “RUSSIAN PLANE DETECTED, LAUNCH ABORTED”.

You think the Turks have access to the software?

If the export S-400s did that, that means that they have Russian sovereign crypto in them to be able to interrogate the Russian military IFF system. Putting their crypto in the possession of other countries is something the Russians are unlikely to allow.

The Turks wouldn’t have access to the software, and I’m sure are prohibited by contract to touch the guts of them. However, they are in physical possession of the system, and if they tell the Russians they can go fuck themselves and start pulling the system apart, there’s not much the Russians can do besides either sue or invade.