Posted on 12/22/2014 3:37:22 AM PST by WhiskeyX
Swedish defense officials have said a Russian military aircraft nearly collided south of Sweden with a commercial passenger plane shortly after takeoff from Copenhagen, Denmark, on December 12.
Sweden's air force chief, Major General Micael Byden, said the Russian warplane's transponders -- which make the plane detectable to commercial radar -- were shut off.
Swedish Defense Minister Peter Hultqvist called the incident "serious" and "inappropriate," although he added the Russian plane had not violated Swedish air space.
"This is outright dangerous when you turn off the transponder," Hultqvist told Swedish radio.
Hultqvist said both Danish and Swedish jet fighters were scrambled in response to the incident, which comes amid heightened tensions between the West and Russia over the conflict in Ukraine.
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According to the Putinista wing, this stories are lies invented to harm the great man and president for life, Putin.
These Russian pilots need to put the voltage bottle down and check their p’s and q’s .....
Damn. Autocorrect
Make that volka not voltage...
Volka, voltage, same thing. :)
It is when you are flying a high speed aircraft.
Well, that is what you get from a reporter; simplistic statements. Commercial radar (and military) uses transponder return signals to identify contacts. The radar doesn't require it to detect an aircraft. However, ATC generally turns down the actual radar returns on their screens, because just looking at the transponder returns is easier, and ATC is focused on traffic management, not detection.
If the Russians keep this crap up, the Baltic ATCs will have to start looking for raw returns.
That and that most commercial radar doesn’t use a height finder and is dependent on the transponder for altitude
Russians are no match for us Swedes. They come in large numbers but lack belief in their cause. Tiny Finland has defeated them in war.
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