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

China and Russia might able to shoot down every JSTAR-aircraft in a day

E-8 Joint STAR
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Kimmo Huosionmaa

The United States Air Force has faced the thing, that it's combat support aircraft like JSTAR radar aircraft are in danger, if the war begins. In here I must see one thing, what has been forgotten by those writers, who think that JSTAR has problems to accomplish their missions. Pentagon has seen those aircraft, and they also know the capacities and threats of that big four-engine aircraft, and here I must ask one question: is JSTAR actually meant to use in full-scale conflict? Some recon and intelligence platforms are operating in peacetime, but as we know that they would not the ability to survive in real war.


The same way we can say that AC-130 gunships would shoot down in the real war, where highly sophisticated forces would operate against U.S military. JSTAR is actually a radar platform, what mission is to locate underground bunkers and vehicles from the ground. The primary role for JSTAR is actually locating the vehicles by using radar, what it is quite difficult, and that system needs powerful computers to handle the data, what is collected by that radar system. In that case, the buildings, hills and other uneven parts of the ground are disturbing the radar, and hide those targets from the JSTAR-system.  JSTAR would also communicate with drones and other sensors, what are delivered to that combat area, and locate the enemies by those subsystems like Boeing Dominator or its successors.

Here I must say that those radars can also installed in any aircraft in the world, what means that B-2 or B-52 might have similar radars, what can locate enemy command bunkers. But as we might see, those four engine aircraft like JSTAR and it Russian opponent IL-18 "Coot A", are normally operate with fighter escort, and in the real world we could see that B-52 or Tu-95 "Bear" class nuclear bombers could be shot down very easily. And of course E-3 "Sentry's" and other radar surveillance platforms are good targets for anti-radiation missiles, but those platforms are used. As we know that there are always secrets, that are not told to normal people.


And somebody believes, that many of those four engine platforms are equipped with ADS (Active Denial System), what is similar to that used in tanks. That system is actually high-power microwave transmitter, what would be targeted to the incoming missiles, and the similar system is quite effective against the aircraft, what is making gun-attack against those four engine multi-mission platforms. There are rumors that next-generation Su-27 fighters have laser weapons because it would expand their strike capacity. Those microwave transmitters are targeting incoming missiles by using their infrared signature for aiming the transmitter to the target.


In some theories, those microwave transmitters can be very dangerous also for aircraft, what are using laser-weapons. The sensor detects the heat, what comes from combat aircraft laser weapons, and then targets microwave or laser ray to that plane. There is a chance to survive, if the user of active denial system has got more powerful microwaves or lasers in use, than attacking aircraft. But that is only the speculation about that kind of things.

Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_Grumman_E-8_Joint_STARS

Boeing Dominator: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2d1ORgVjZto

https://www.airforcetimes.com/news/your-air-force/2018/05/18/air-force-secretary-china-russia-could-shoot-down-new-jstars-on-day-one-of-a-war/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=ebb%2021.05.18&utm_term=Editorial%20-%20Early%20Bird%20Brief


Picture I

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