Andrei Martyanov is a top Russian military and naval analyst. Here he blogs on the latest findings.
http://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2018/09/some-fast-thoughts-on-il-20.html
Excerpts:
Israeli aircraft were forced to seek a cover and one can only imagine how warnings were screaming in their cockpits. They saw our IL-20 with its huge Radar Cross Section (RCS).
For those with a short attention span it is worth reminding them that Syrian Air Defense does have a track record of shooting down or damaging IAF’s aircraft. In fact, apart from actually admitting their losses, IAF is still mum on the fate of F-35s [the top US jet, given in effect to the Khazars though $130 million apiece] that were supposedly “damaged by birds.”
In other words, Syrian AD does track and locks on Israeli combat aircraft.
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Israel violated in this case not just an ethical norm by hiding behind IL-20, it violated much more—it flew its planes into the area which was specifically designated as “out of reach” for the IAF [Israel Air Force].
As former Israel’s Service Nativ’ Yakov Kedmi stated after the events, all this tragedy became a result of Israeli recklessness and unprofessionalism, he called this mistake by Israeli generals a doom-spelling one.
*** On Kedmi
This Russia-born Jew is the former head of the Israeli intelligence agency “Nativ”. He often appears on Russian TV.
Wiki: ”
- Nativ: the organization responsible for bringing Jews from Soviet Bloc countries, a later manifestation of the Mossad Le’aliyah Bet. Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in the 1990s, it moved out of the intelligence community and became a department within the Prime Minister’s office.”
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Reaction of Israel following the events is telling—she went into the full damage control mode with Netanyahu urgently calling Vladimir Putin. He offered the Commander of Israeli Air Force to be immediately on his way to Moscow, all diplomatic, informational, government channels between Israel and Russia got immediately engaged. This was a very telling sign of a real panic and confusion on the Israeli side which also immediately offered condolences.
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Training of Syrian personnel and, obvious now, necessity, once advanced S-300s (PMU) are additionally delivered to Syria, to have Russian advisers working full time within any Syrian Air Defense crew dealing with much more advanced technology [ the S-300 systems] than the old S-200s.
In the end, this tragedy, should serve as a real serious lesson and, in a military sense a warning that one had better stick to the agreements, or things may spiral out of control very fast.
Israel decided that it is allowed to break agreements.
Israel should ask Turkey what happens when one does Russia wrong—the Turkish Air Force knows it too well after shooting down Russian SU-24. It got grounded.
[and at the end]
INTERMITTENT SUMMARY: So it is clear now that the IAF used the oldest trick in the book by shielding her aircraft using the IL-20, which was descending for landing–so very Israeli–and then, of course, lied that it had warned the Russian side. Yes…one minute before!I will return to Israel later, for now it is known that Bibi wants to speak with Putin and that Israel is engaged with Russia across a whole spectrum of diplomatic, military, and what-have-you activities, trying to prevent what might be coming.
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