• laranis@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    3 months ago

    As someone who knows nothing about this, I would have expected some sort of maneuver from the targeted aircraft. Wouldn’t a modern aircraft have some sort of threat detection that would alert the pilot to take immediate evasive action?

    • TheOSINTguy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Unless its some missile active radar, or semi active radar. This missile was likely a fim-92 or sa-18, meaning it tracks heat emissions and doesn’t emit any signal, so there is almost no way to detect it. There probably are systems to detect a missile launch of this kind, but those systems are probably classified and I don’t expect the russians to have it.