it’s so. the best system to fight a Harm shooter is to contrast him with a passive system. Imagine as example a SA 10 site with a belt of Sa-13 all around (the SA-13 has teh magick box with passive ESMs to lock a target emitting radar but also, i mean, ECM, plus an advanced passive IR seeker and a rangefinder radar: te best you can do , except if you put a laser rangefinder insthead of the radar).

I though also that the ALQ 184 of the Taiwaneses fighters are target for the FT 2000, it’s not believable that this was meant only for AWACs.

Rougly, an passive-ESm is like a an eye vs a light spot, it’s possible and likely to track at longer range than the range of the radar or ECm the “source”, like it’s possible to see from the space the lights of a city. So it’s not difficult in theory lock before the launch even if the radar wave are more elusive than the light or the sound wavelengths. It’s more easy to spot a light or sound source than a radar, but even so, the best way to counter attack a Sead with passive missiles is to use another passive system: a airplane must emit some kind of energy while the SAM position at the ground can stay totally silent, with active radars and engines shut off.