why not ? They are trained to stay weeks in a foreign area. And the beginning of their "trip" may be in tourists clothes...
Well the US craps its pants everytime someone buys S 400, that should tell you something about its capabilities.
It will be very difficult to spot S-400 batteries since they will mostly be placed in areas which you can't just walk into.
HUMINT does play a part, but it's not always possible. By the time the intelligence is actionable, the battery would have moved.
These systems help pick out transmitters, but they can't tell you if they picked up a radar or a decoy.
You still need something that can actually physically verify the presence of the S-400.
They can found out how to beat India's one.
The problem here, is that people will say that x stealth jet has never been tested. Well neither has the S-300/400/500. Never ever. It's less tested in combat than the F-117, in fact it's completely untested in combat.
oh it will be tested alright. The queen's neo imperialist ambitions are becoming clear. we have clear indications that the woman has ordered Theresa May and Boris Johnson to 'start recovering the lost colonies'. If things keep going like this then we will test the system against the Royal Air Force soon.
Lol! You innocent, innocent man. A great game has begun. You seriously don't think there is an underlying mechanixs to this? I can tell you the most important thing you need to know about this.
I am lost.
You said India's system can be made ineffective by China by copying US system.
I said by this logic, US can make China's same system ineffective by drone swarms.
Now the question for you is - If copy of US system can make Indian S400 ineffective, why did China procure the system which is already ineffective against US drone swarm systems?
It doesn't have any other options. The S-300/400/500 has never been combat tested and its forerunner, the S-200, was diabolically poor. There's a lot of faith invested in an untested system. And yes, drone swarms will overcome them, in fact stealth jets will. SAMs have never proven as effective as AAMs at shooting down combat jets historically and there's no reason to suspect that has changed.
In fairness, that plane was shot down because the USAF got cocky, and started carrying out more and more missions on the same old, predictable flight paths, disregarding safe practices and going against better judgment.
But those "obselete" S-125s should be unable to lock down on a "stealth" fighter like F 117, so predictable flight paths doesn't matters when the aircraft is supposed to be invisible to missiles/radars.
