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  • @tal
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    16 months ago

    I’d think that planes like that and large SAM systems would have some kind of IFF system active.

    Given that it was shortly after takeoff, I wonder if it was some guy with a MANPADS that wouldn’t have had access to that sort or information?

    googles

    Yeah, sounds like something called “Parol”.

    https://www.mil-airfields.de/equipment/soviet-russian-iff-parol.htm

    Parol is a Soviet / Russian system for identification, friend or foe (IFF) and is the successor to Kremnij-2 system. Using cryptographic methods, a much better imitation security is achieved. In the late 1980s, introduction to the East German forces began.

    https://youtube.com/watch?v=RKZaxOAWE30