Report: Israel 'blinded' Syrian radar

ef/x · Post time 9-10-2007 12:38 PM

Ntah... airborne nih ada enough power ke nak invade, jammed, control radar system etc

mesti dlm F-16 nih ada keyboard & mouse sampai bleh hack & control the whole syrian network system

powerwoot · Post time 9-10-2007 12:47 PM

wah bersemangat sungguh jugak ef/x harini

ef/x · Post time 9-10-2007 01:24 PM

Semagat nak raye

keja pun dah kureng skitt

spiderweb6969 · Post time 10-10-2007 09:55 AM

Israel used electronic attack in air strike against Syrian mystery target

By David A. Fulghum and Douglas Barrie
Oct. 8, 2007

Mysteries still surround Israel's air strike against Syria. Where was the attack, what was struck and how did Israel's non-stealthy warplanes fly undetected through the Russian-made air defense radars in Syria?

There also are clues that while the U.S. and Israel are struggling in the broader information war with Islamic fundamentalists, Tel Aviv's air attack against a "construction site" in northern Syria may mean the two countries are beginning to win some cyberwar battles.

U.S. officials say that close examination of the few details of the mission offers a glimpse of what's new in the world of sophisticated electronic sleight-of-hand. That said, they fault the Pentagon for not moving more quickly to make cyberwarfare operational and for not integrating the capability into the U.S. military forces faster.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said last week that the Israelis struck a building site at Tall al-Abyad just south of the Turkish border on Sept. 6. Press reports from the region say witnesses saw the Israeli aircraft approach from the Mediterranean Sea while others said they found unmarked drop tanks in Turkey near the border with Syria. Israeli defense officials finally admitted Oct. 2 that the Israeli Air Force made the raid.

U.S. aerospace industry and retired military officials indicated the Israelis utilized a technology like the U.S.-developed "Suter" airborne network attack system developed by BAE Systems and integrated into U.S. unmanned aerial vehicle operations by L-3 Communications. Israel has long been adept at using unmanned systems to provoke and spoof Syrian surface-to-air missile (SAM) systems, as far back as the Bekka Valley engagements in 1982.

Air Force officials will often talk about jamming, but the term now involves increasingly sophisticated techniques such as network attack and information warfare. How many of their new electronic attack options were mixed and matched to pull off this raid is not known.

The U.S. version of the system has been at the very least tested operationally in Iraq and Afghanistan in the last year, most likely against insurgent communication networks. The technology allows users to invade communications networks, see what enemy sensors see and even take over as systems administrator so sensors can be manipulated into positions where approaching aircraft can't be seen, they say. The process involves locating enemy emitters with great precision and then directing data streams into them that can include false targets and misleading messages that allow a number of activities including control.

Clues, both good and unlikely, are found in Middle East press reports. At least one places some responsibility for the attack's success on the U.S.

After the strike, the Kuwaiti newspaper Al Watan reported that U.S. jets provided aerial cover for Israeli strike aircraft during the attack on Syria. Similar statements of American involvement were made by Egyptian officials after the 1967 and 1973 wars with Israel.

More interesting is the newspaper's claim that "Russian experts are studying why the two state-of-the-art Russian-built radar systems in Syria did not detect the Israeli jets entering Syrian territory," it said. "Iran reportedly has asked the same question, since it is buying the same systems and might have paid for the Syrian acquisitions."

Syria's most recent confirmed procurement was of the Tor-M1 (SA-15 Gauntlet) short-range mobile SAM system. It uses vehicle-mounted target-acquisition and target-tracking radars. It is not known whether any of the Tor systems were deployed in the point-defense role at the target site struck by Israeli aircraft. If, however, the target was as "high-value" as the Israeli raid would suggest, then Tor systems could well have been deployed.

Iran bought 29 of the Tor launchers from Russia for $750 million to guard its nuclear sites, and they were delivered in January, according to Agence France-Presse and ITAR-TASS. According to the Syrian press, they were tested in February. Syria has also upgraded some of its aging S-125s (SA-3 Goa) to the Pechora-2A standard. This upgrade swaps out obsolete analog components for digital.

Syrian air defense infrastructure is based on for the most part aging Soviet SAMs and associated radar. Damascus has been trying to acquire more capable "strategic" air defense systems, with the country repeatedly associated with efforts to purchase the Russian S-300 (SA-10 Grumble/SA-20) long-range SAM. It also still operates the obsolescent S-200 (SA-5 Gammon) long-range system and its associated 5N62 Square Pair target engagement radar. There are also unconfirmed reports of Syrian interest in the 36D6 Tin Shield search radar.

There remains the second mystery of the actual site of the target and its use. Israeli news reports contend it was a compound near Dayr az-Zwar in north central Syria, and not Tall al-Abyad farther north. The site of the attack has been described as a transshipment point for weapons intended for the Hez?bollah in Lebanon to restock missile stores that were used in last summer's fighting with Israel. Others contend it is a site with nuclear materials that may be associated with Iran's nuclear bomb program. Mentions are also made of a North Korean ship arriving in Syria only days before the attack and the presence of North Korean workers in Syria for several months.

"There are always indications the North Koreans are doing something they shouldn't, Vice Adm. Robert Murrett, director of the National Geospatial-intelligence Agency (NGA), told Aviation Week & Space Technology in response to a question about the shipment of nuclear materials from North Korea to Syria, which were subsequently bombed. "They are a high priority. We work as a key element . . . on the trafficking of WMD [weapons of mass destruction] and high-interest arms shipments anyplace."

It's part of a growing NGA role in spotting the proliferation of weapons technology "which may be coming from East Asia to the Middle East . . . that we don't want to cross borders." Other crucial boundaries for surveillance include the borders in all directions in Afghanistan and Iraq梬hich includes Syria and Iran梐s well as semi-governed areas such as the Horn of Africa. The use of automation to aid rapid analysis is improving, but that's being balanced by the fact that "the sheer volumes of data we are ingesting now . . . continue to increase by a couple of orders of magnitude on an annual basis," he says.

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spiderweb6969 · Post time 21-10-2007 08:40 AM

EXCLUSIVE: The Case for Israel's Strike on Syria
Official: Air Attack Targeted Nascent Nuclear Facility Built With North Korean 'Expertise'

By MARTHA RADDATZ
Oct. 19, 2007

Israeli officials believed that a target their forces bombed inside Syria last month was a nuclear facility, because they had detailed photographs taken by a possible spy inside the complex, ABC News has learned.

The Bush administration has steadfastly refused to say anything about the Israeli raid on Syria, or to confirm what was hit. But ABC News has learned of the apparent mole and other dramatic and secret details about the events leading up to the airstrike, plus the evidence that supported it.

A senior U.S. official told ABC News the Israelis first discovered a suspected Syrian nuclear facility early in the summer, and the Mossad

Nick_Perelman · Post time 26-10-2007 01:21 PM

Syria's Mysterious Cleanup

October 25, 2007 05:54 PM ET | Permanent Link

There is more news today on the mysterious goings-on at what is thought to be the site in Syria hit last month by a surprise Israeli airstrike. Earlier this week, David Albright, a former weapons inspector for the United Nations who heads the Institute for Science and International Security, identified on prebombing satellite images what may have been Israel's target: an apparent secret Syrian nuclear reactor under construction.

Now, with DigitalGlobe satellite images taken Wednesday, Albright and his colleagues at the Washington think tank are reporting that Syria has removed whatever was left at the site and has bulldozed the ground. It is not clear how close to completion Syria was at its secret nuclear reactor site梚f it was that. Syria has issued denials, and the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, is doing its own analysis of satellite imagery and other evidence.

"Dismantling and removing the building at such a rapid pace dramatically complicates any inspection of the facilities and suggests that Syria may be trying to hide what was there," says the new report.

http://www.usnews.com/blogs/news ... erious-cleanup.html

In Google Earth pic is not updated yet, so building is still standing:

http://img502.imageshack.us/img502/1458/nucfac2vl1.jpg

Location:

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Nick_Perelman · Post time 26-10-2007 01:24 PM

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ef/x · Post time 27-10-2007 10:35 AM

Can Syria do the same to Damona ? will U.S media justified the attack or condem it ?

- No response necessary

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Debmey · Post time 27-10-2007 07:30 PM

Syria can certainly go ahead and try and see what happens.

cheers

Nick_Perelman · Post time 27-10-2007 10:50 PM

Originally posted by ef/x at 27-10-2007 10:35 AM
Can Syria do the same to Damona ? will U.S media justified the attack or condem it ?

- No response necessary

They can try

Here is the exact location: 31

Nick_Perelman · Post time 25-4-2008 03:15 PM

Pictures of the reactor are realeased by White House:

steel liner of reactor's vessel:

shortly after the bombing:

Eokboy · Post time 25-4-2008 04:06 PM

Any system even if not connected to the internet, if it transmits and receives wirelessly, it can be hacked.

This incident shows that if you can't build your own network and sensors and you are facing an enemy who does, you are screwed. You can buy the most top notch C4I system but you can't buy the brains behind them. If you expect to get away with giving people just enough training for them to operate the stuff for years, good luck. Electonic warfare is a continously evolving art, therefore you need people who are not only capable of operating such systems but also constantly finding ways to improve it.