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De här formuleringarna från Defense One har sitt värde (och kanske inte så överraskande...):
”A surface-to-air missile battery operator typically tries to get positive identification of a suspicious aircraft before firing. Since
all commercial airliners have a transponder that sends out unique information about that particular aircraft — known as a squawk — the missile operator should check for this info.
“You don’t have to have a radar hit for that,” Deptula said. “That is a device that actually transmits that information.”
If a plane is not transmitting a squawk, the surface-to-air missile operator should check the local flight timetable. If there’s nothing on the flight schedule, he or she should next analyze the flight characteristics of the plane.
“Is this airplane coming in at low altitude and high speed [while] heading toward a sensitive operating area,” Deptula said. “Or is it climbing out on a profile, going through medium altitude at a speed typical of an airliner…and what’s its vector.
“Any one of those three elements, you then have a good sense as to whether this is a hostile aircraft or a friendly or remains an unknown,” he said.
Each country has rules of engagement that dictate when to fire anti-aircraft missiles.
Ukraine Airlines Flight 752 was climbing to the northwest — away from Tehran— and was at 7,925 feet at a speed of 275 knots when its squawk was lost, according to flight tracking data from Flightradar24.
[... parti som vagt antyder möjligheten att Iran parkerat ut automatinställda missilenheter för att täcka upp luckor i försvaret och sen gått hem o lagt sig ...]
A former senior defense official called the incident “totally unacceptable incompetence.” Iran’s air defenses “basically don’t clear anything, they just shoot,” the former official said.”
”How Not to Operate a Surface-to-Air Missile Battery”
Defense One:
https://www.defenseone.com/threats/2...attery/162361/