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Bezuglaya: the first F-16 of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was shot down with the help of the Patriot air defense system
EurAsia Daily ^ | August 29, 2024 | Staff

Posted on 08/29/2024 5:40:02 PM PDT by Navy Patriot

F-16, during the massive rocket attacks on August 26, was shot down with the help of Patriot air defense systems due to the lack of coordination between the units of the Ukrainian Air Force. This was stated by the deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Mariana Bezuglaya.

"According to my information, the F-16 of the Ukrainian pilot Alexei "Moonfish" Mes was shot down by the Patriot anti-aircraft missile system due to discoordination between units. The reports noted that he "failed to manage." The event took place during one of the most powerful air attacks of the Russians on August 26.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; Russia; Ukraine
KEYWORDS: f16; killkillkillforpeace; mic; oops; ukraine; welfarewar; zeepershasthesads; zeepersindespair
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Earlier, "Voice of America"*, citing its own sources in the air forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, confirmed that the F-16 with Lieutenant Colonel Alexei Mes was shot down by "friendly" fire of the Ukrainian air defense.
1 posted on 08/29/2024 5:40:02 PM PDT by Navy Patriot
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To: Navy Patriot

Welp.

This is awkward.


2 posted on 08/29/2024 5:40:59 PM PDT by kiryandil (Kraft durch Freude! - The Kamunist and The Walzrus )
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To: Navy Patriot

Get us the hell out of this Charley Foxtrot.


3 posted on 08/29/2024 5:41:34 PM PDT by johniegrad
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To: Navy Patriot

Did they forget to instruct the Ukrainian artillery men operating the Patriot systems about ‘Friend or Foe’?


4 posted on 08/29/2024 5:41:57 PM PDT by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA-PRO-MAX)
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To: kiryandil

keystone cops.


5 posted on 08/29/2024 5:42:53 PM PDT by Qwapisking ("IF the Second goes first the First goes second" L.Star)
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To: kiryandil

D-link no workee


6 posted on 08/29/2024 5:44:24 PM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Navy Patriot

“ F-16, ….. was shot down with the help of Patriot air defense systems…”
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The F-16 pilots MUST begin bombing all Patriot systems they see. Their lives depend on them doing that successfully. /sarc?


7 posted on 08/29/2024 5:44:33 PM PDT by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA-PRO-MAX)
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To: Navy Patriot

8 posted on 08/29/2024 5:45:13 PM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: Navy Patriot

Friendly Fire.
Congrats to YouCraynee for killing their own Pilot.


9 posted on 08/29/2024 5:45:46 PM PDT by tennmountainman ( (“Less propaganda would be appreciated.” JimRob 12-2-2023 DITTO)
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To: Navy Patriot

Well this is how you make money... Sell US something , blow it up after we get it, and then sell US another one.


10 posted on 08/29/2024 5:46:10 PM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: Navy Patriot

Better friendly fire than Russian fire per the MSM,

so who knows at this point what happened.


11 posted on 08/29/2024 5:49:32 PM PDT by CodeJockey (I'd like to change the world, but they won't give me the source code.)
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To: Gaffer

https://archive.ph/hpRRq


12 posted on 08/29/2024 5:58:32 PM PDT by kiryandil (Kraft durch Freude! - The Kamunist and The Walzrus )
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To: Navy Patriot

What a mess. Don’t these morons even know how to use the IFF features of the F16 and Patriot weapons systems


13 posted on 08/29/2024 6:01:35 PM PDT by rdcbn1
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To: CodeJockey

I think the Russians shot the F-16 down and all the talk from the Ukraine is lies to save face for the US MIC. It doesn’t look bad for the MIC when one of its wunderwaffe (wonder weapon) takes out another


14 posted on 08/29/2024 6:01:58 PM PDT by wildcard_redneck (He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither.)
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To: Navy Patriot

Russian Nazis just can’t stop bombing their neighbors. Genocide and banditry is in very fabric of their “culture”.


15 posted on 08/29/2024 6:09:04 PM PDT by lodi90
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To: Navy Patriot

We give them F-16s, we give them Patriots, they use the Patriots to shoot gown the F-16s.

That’s quite a self licking ice cream cone.


16 posted on 08/29/2024 6:11:22 PM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDI. )
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To: lodi90

LOL retarded Ukrainian nazis either got shot down by Russia, making them look retarded, or they shot their own guy down, making them super retarded


17 posted on 08/29/2024 6:12:32 PM PDT by pigeoninthepark
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To: lodi90

Reports are: Alexei “Moonfish” Mes did Nazi it coming.


18 posted on 08/29/2024 6:13:31 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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To: DesertRhino

Zelensky is so “flexible” he licks himself daily.


19 posted on 08/29/2024 6:16:46 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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To: rdcbn1

“Identification Friend Or Foe (IFF)”

https://gdmissionsystems.com/encryption/embedded-encryption/identification-friend-or-foe-crypto-systems

WIKI

IFF Mark II was the first operational identification friend or foe system. It was developed by the Royal Air Force just before the start of World War II. After a short run of prototype Mark Is, used experimentally in 1939, the Mark II began widespread deployment at the end of the Battle of Britain in late 1940. It remained in use until 1943, when it began to be replaced by the standardised IFF Mark III, which was used by all Allied aircraft until long after the war ended.

The Mark I was a simple system that amplified the signals of the British Chain Home radar systems, causing the aircraft’s “blip” to extend on the radar display, identifying the aircraft as friendly. Mark I had the problem that the gain had to be adjusted in flight to keep it working; in the field, it was correct only half the time. Another problem was that it was sensitive to only one frequency and had to be manually tuned to different radar stations. In 1939, Chain Home was the only radar of interest and operated on a limited set of frequencies but new radars were already entering service and the number of frequencies was beginning to multiply.

Mark II addressed both these problems. An automatic gain control eliminated the need to adjust the gain, making the device much more likely to be working properly when interrogated. To work with many types of radar, a complex system of motorised gears and cams constantly shifted the frequency through three wide bands, scanning each every few seconds. These changes automated the operation of the device and made it truly useful for the first time; previously, operators could not be sure if a blip was an enemy aircraft or a friendly one with a maladjusted IFF. Originally ordered in 1939, installation was delayed during the Battle of Britain and the system became widely used from the end of 1940.

Although the Mark II’s selection of frequencies covered the early war period, by 1942 so many radars were in use that a series of sub-versions had been introduced to cover particular combinations of radars. The introduction of new radars based on the cavity magnetron required different frequencies to which the system was not easily adapted. This led to the introduction of the Mark III, which operated on a single frequency that could be used with any radar; it also eliminated the need for the complex gear and cam system. Mark III began entering service in 1943 and quickly replaced the Mark II.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IFF_Mark_II


20 posted on 08/29/2024 6:25:40 PM PDT by Brian Griffin ("Why didn’t she do it three and a half years ago?”)
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