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[Paphitis]

Can the F16s of countries like Greece, Turkey, Israel and others be used against American forces without some form of cancelling devices being used against them?

Those who purchase US military hardware may well discover one day that it's useless against US forces...

That would be true unless you have a stockpile of spare parts and develop the maintenance support.

It is not just about purchasing the aircraft, but you need to develop an ordnance and spare parts inventory. This is what Greece and Turkey lack.

America's biggest advantage would be their ability to place in built errors into the GPS Satellite Constellation, which gives innacurate triangulation. This could deem all GPS Guided Weapons ineffective against US Forces.

I was talking about security chips (ICs) on the motherboards of surface to air missile systems and even on fighter aircraft that make logical "decisions" on what's friendly and what's not.

I suspect there's a huge difference between what is exported to other countries by the US and what is manufactured for themselves; the Americans can never be trusted...

Pakistan is currently getting a dose of that from their inability to counter US incursions on their mountain ranges bordering Afghanistan. The Pakistani American-made air defense systems are not picking up US drones and aircraft let alone respond to them!

The US drones you refer to are UAVs. Some UAVs are very stealthy and can avoid detection by radar.

But here is an article to back up your statement.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/4766677a12.html

Those "Drone" UAVs used in Pakistan are the Predator.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MQ-1_Predator

They have also been exported to UK and Italy. Australia has trialled the Predator and is likely to purchase soon.

I doubt that America will sell the best available systems to Pakistan. It is an islamic nation and is therefore considered fairly unstable.

[zan]

Why are all these "Cypriots" concerned about what happens in/to Greece

[zan]

Did I hear a resounding..."Oh! Yey"|!

[Nikitas]

"The above is an interesting article. Turkey is challenging our right to explore for oil and natural gas."

which answers Zan's question.

There was an editorial in an Athens daily two days ago about the developments in the Kastellorizo-Cyprus-Crete triangle where Turkey is desperatly trying to project power. At some point there will have to be a response. How that response will manifest itself we will see. And we will see how France will react, since some of the companies involved in exploration are French.