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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Welp.
This is awkward.
Get us the hell out of this Charley Foxtrot.
Did they forget to instruct the Ukrainian artillery men operating the Patriot systems about ‘Friend or Foe’?
keystone cops.
D-link no workee
“ 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?
Friendly Fire.
Congrats to YouCraynee for killing their own Pilot.
Well this is how you make money... Sell US something , blow it up after we get it, and then sell US another one.
Better friendly fire than Russian fire per the MSM,
so who knows at this point what happened.
What a mess. Don’t these morons even know how to use the IFF features of the F16 and Patriot weapons systems
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
Russian Nazis just can’t stop bombing their neighbors. Genocide and banditry is in very fabric of their “culture”.
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.
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
Reports are: Alexei “Moonfish” Mes did Nazi it coming.
Zelensky is so “flexible” he licks himself daily.
“Identification Friend Or Foe (IFF)”
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
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