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To: marcusmaximus; All
It appears (to me) that the A-50 is deploying self protection flares and is most likely also deploying self protection chaff.

Both are not effective against Patriot missiles.

If the A-50 has EW jamming capability, it is obviously not effective against Patriots.

There are 2 explosions on the video.

The first explosion is at 54 seconds and the second (bigger) explosion is at 1+03. This indicates 2 missiles were fired at the A-50.

The A-50 probably had on-board or off-board notification of the Patriot launch, but was unable to defeat one of the missiles.

777 posted on 02/23/2024 10:13:29 AM PST by FtrPilot
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I think the first hit was the IL-22 escort and the second hit was the A-50.


779 posted on 02/23/2024 10:16:03 AM PST by marcusmaximus
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