• laranis@lemmy.zipEnglish
    5·
    4 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
      8·
      4 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.

      • BombOmOm@lemmy.worldMEnglish
        4·
        4 months ago

        There probably are systems to detect a missile launch of this kind

        Some aircraft have missile launch detectors that are based on detecting sudden IR blooms in their vicinity. I don’t think many aircraft have them though.

        The Su-25, the aircraft in the video, does have a rear-facing IR dazzler. It basically shines an IR flashlight into the ‘eye’ of any missile following the aircraft. This IR missile, however, hit it from the front/left and not the rear, so that dazzler had no opportunity to attempt to confuse the missile.