China's integrated air defenses— based on cheap, sometimes stolen digital technology—are now considered potentially more threatening to the U.S. than Russia's. The wholesale use of commercial products has made Chinese networks flexible, easy to upgrade and tough to exploit. That opinion, rapidly taking hold in the U.S. electronic warfare community, is part of the tsunami of air defense analysis following Israel's demonstration of its ability to shut down Syria's Russian-built air defenses long enough to con- duct a bombing raid—and then allowed the radars to come back on in time to see the Israeli aircraft disappearing over the border.
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