IDENTIFICATION FRIEND OR

FOE

T.Sgt Serdar YILMAZTRK

Avionic Teacher
 CONTENTS
WHAT IS IFF ?
HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT OF IFF
IFF SYSTEM PARTS
IFF MODES
HOW IFF SYSTEM WORKS?
OTHER IFF APPLICATION
CONCLUSION
 WHAT IS IFF ?
Identification, friend or foe(IFF) is an
identification system designed for command and control.
It enables military and civilian air traffic control
interrogation systems to identify aircraft as friendly.
 HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT OF IFF

The technology IFF

was developed during
WORLD WAR-II by
British and American
military
Sir ROBERT WATSON
WATT invented the first
IFF transponder in 1935
This technology was later
used by Civil Aviation in
1950s.

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IFF SYSTEM PARTS
 MODES OF OPERATION OF IFF
SYSTEMS
Mode 1 is a non-secure method used to track aircrafts; codes
manually set by pilot but assigned by ATC(military only)
Mode 2 is for identification; identifies the tail no.(military only)
Mode 3/A is the standard system also used by civilian aircrafts
to relay their position to ground controllers throughout the
world for ATC. Used in conjunction with MODE C(military &
civilian)
Mode 4 is secure encrypted IFF(the only true method of
determining friend or foe); only military
Mode "C" is the altitude encoder(military & civilian)
Newly developed Mode S does selective interrogation; each
aircraft can be addressed using its unique 24 bit
address(military & civilian)
Mode 5-advanced mode of Mode S under processing
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MODE-4
HOW AN IFF SYSTEM WORKS?
 WORKING PRINCIPLE OF IFF
SYSTEM

Ground based transmitter known as interrogator

that is the Secondary Surveillance radar
synchronized with primary radar, transmits a radio
signal(interrogating signal) to the aircrafts
transponder at 1030 Megahertz by selecting a
unique transponder code
Transponder receives the signal and decodes it
After decoding, the transponder replies back to the
interrogator for that particular transponder code
Now the interrogator will decode the reply and
report back to ATC and thus we will get the display

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RADAR DISPLAY
 OTHER IFF
APPLICATION
 CONCLUSION
o IFF INFORMATIONS

o IFF HISTORY

o IFF MODES

o MODE-4

o OTHER IFF APPLICATION

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ANY QUESTIONS
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