On Warfare Today
Italian pilot David Cenciotti, blogger, is writing about the military operations in Libya on his site. Not only can readers gain technical insight into the operations there, Cenciotti points to a new relationship between aviation enthusiasts and military forces.
Enthusiasts form an international network that constantly monitors military communications worldwide, thus potentially undoing the element of surprise. In the case of US bombing of Libya by B-2 bombers, the USAF reacted by using misleading communications signals. Later on, however, an enthusiast informed the USAF that one of its aircraft was broadcasting its identity inadvertently through a transponder normally used to broadcast aircraft positions and identities for collision avoidance purposes.
