Russian maritime patrol or reconnaissance aircraft shot down in Syrian regime and 15 men were killed

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Kimmo Huosionmaa


There was a terrible mistake in Syria and Russian IL-20 "Coot"-type maritime patrol or reconnaissance aircraft have been shot down near Syrian coast. This situation happened after the Israeli air strike, and the Russian made missile accidentally locked to the Russian patrol aircraft, what was got the hit from S-300 missile, and all members of its crew were killed.


The body of IL-20-series of aircraft is used as the platform for various types of the reconnaissance and patrol aircraft.  The codename of this aircraft is "Coot", what is actually the name for many types of reconnaissance aircraft, and the western intelligence has believed, that some of those aircraft are actually the Russian versions of the "J-STAR" spy and tactical reconnaissance aircraft.


Those aircraft use very low-frequency radar for looking at the underground targets, and also those aircraft have the capacity of the electronic intelligence and recon missions. In those missions, those multimission aircraft use the recorders when they collect information about the targeted systems. When we are thinking about the mission of that kind of aircraft, we must notice, that they are multimission platforms, what have many types of missions at the same time.


When some media is claimed that this particular aircraft has been flown over the Baltic sea for collecting data from the electronic networks, we must say, that those aircraft signings might be repainted, and there might be other aircraft with the same markings. Another aircraft would be some for some kind of maritime or other long-range patrolling purposes, and the other would be the electronic- or multimission recon aircraft.


The maritime patrol aircraft would be replaced and play the role of the recon plane when it's on the mission. The reason for the double registration is to hide the identity of the crew and the aircraft, what would be very wanted because of its electronic components and mission profiles. Those electronic multimission aircraft are very expensive, and they are sometimes flying undercover missions, where those aircraft would use civilian transponder codes. And sometimes they are flying without national signs or under civilian markings. They would use the equipment for collecting data from the GSM- and other communications networks and radar signals.

https://edition.cnn.com/2018/09/17/politics/syrian-regime-shoots-down-russian-plane/index.html?no-st=1537292401