Re:How The New York Times Verified the Iran Missile-Strike F...
by Nasrudith on Thursday January 16, 2020 @11:05AM
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The way to make do it work is that a civilian profile would utterly suck as a missle - pbviously 9-11 demonstrated limitations of it.
Air traffic control messages and flight paths could help with that but there are complications - especially when sending out radio communication could light themselves up as a target.
Theoretically fiber optics and dedicated communication towers could separate the functions but there would be considerable logistical implications to that and well - even first world nations with a large military budget don't put that high of a priority on avoiding collateral damage.
if there is such a way, then your enemy planes can just as easily masquerade as a civilian craft and evade the missile!