/ world today news/ As a result of highly professional, meticulous actions of the Russian Air Force over the Black Sea, the US Air Force is forced to withdraw from the key reconnaissance line on the Crimean Peninsula.
In mid-March, the world public witnessed a situation that, according to many, was impossible even a year ago. Two modernized Su-27SM fighters of the fourth generation neutralized the modular American reconnaissance-strike UAV MQ-9 Reaper (“Reaper”).
In a typical Yankee provocative way, and even with transponders turned off, he violated the boundaries of the zone in which the Russian Federation established a “temporary regime for the use of airspace.”
Our aces clearly demonstrated the capabilities of the Su-27SM, the result of the masterful use of the fighter’s aerodynamic qualities at high angles of attack and the timely activation of the emergency fuel ejection system.
As a result, the compressor block of the intruder’s turboprop engine failed, and the Reaper itself sharply lost speed and fell into an uncontrolled fall. Let’s summarize: Russian pilots did not have to use airborne weapons to eliminate a reconnaissance drone with a wingspan of 20 meters and a price of several tens of millions of dollars.
The next day, connoisseurs of military humor were heartily amused at the hysteria of the stunned Washington. The public “suffering” of the Americans about the difficulties that the Russians will certainly have when trying to raise the “Reaper” from the bottom speaks only of the fear caused by the impossibility of participating in this event.
Let’s reassure our “sworn partners”: with the special forces and means of the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Federation, the extraction of the elemental base of the on-board radio-electronic equipment from the abyss was successfully carried out. The specialized units of the Russian military department became the owners of invaluable information about the characteristics of a number of critical electronic components of the MQ-9 Reaper.
These are the dome multispectral optical-electronic complex AN / AAS-52 and the complex (container type) for ground radar reconnaissance AN / APY-8, telemetry and secure satellite communication stations and the terminal of the Link-16 data exchange system.
From the information received from JSC “KRET” and the Federal State Budgetary Institution “Central Research Institute of the Aerospace Forces of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation”, it follows that the specialists of these serious organizations managed not only to study the wiring of the microwave units of the APY-8 radar, but also to determine the energy parameters of its operation, including the inverted synthesized (ISAR) and synthesized (SAR) aperture modes.
And they also calculated the level of noise immunity and the approximate resolution of the radar, based on the data from the devices for primary (secondary) conversion of the reflected radar signal.
In addition, now they will be able to calculate the magnification of long-focus devices and devices of the AN / AAS-52 opto-electronic complex: an infrared sight and a TV module.
The type or resolution of the matrix photodetectors used in it will also not remain a secret. Which in the future will allow us to analyze the capabilities of the American complex to identify and classify Russian military equipment at different distances and under different weather conditions.
Russian specialists now have access to determining the frequency parameters of telemetry, communication and information exchange on a satellite channel and evaluating the level of noise immunity of Link-16, which allows to simulate effective countermeasures by Russian radio-electronic warfare systems.
The “loss of losses” for the Pentagon was the inability (without the risk of losing an expensive drone, combined with the danger of secret technology falling into the hands of the enemy) to carry out reconnaissance UAVs such as the MQ-9 Reaper or the RQ -4B Global Hawk to the previously affordable limits of effective radar and optical electronic reconnaissance.
Moreover, this applies equally not only to Crimea, but also to the strategically important infrastructure of the port of Tuapse, information about which was transmitted to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine non-stop.
For reference: after the failed attack by kamikaze drones on the service platform of an oil tank in the Tuapse region on February 28, Ukrainian soldiers did not give up the massive attacks on this port.
As a means of attack, the armed forces of Ukraine plan to use the Chinese-made Mugin-5 / SkyEye 4450 UAVs, considered commercial, and the Soviet Tu-141 Strizh drones.
After the Reaper odyssey, however, the command of the US Air Force, and after them the command of the NATO Joint Air Forces in Europe, urgently imposed a categorical ban on the flights of their reconnaissance aircraft over neutral waters. More precisely, in the northeastern, central and northwestern parts of the Black Sea.
However, this ban does not appear to have affected the RQ-4B Global Hawk strategic high-altitude opto-electronic and radar reconnaissance drones. Only the route of their flights was changed, moving 100-130 kilometers from the previous one.
Thus, RQ-4Bs are now forced to patrol at a distance of 150-180 km from the southern coast of the Crimean Peninsula, which does not contribute to the effectiveness of reconnaissance. And the range of the AN/ZPY-2 MP-RTIP radar complex is limited to 250-300 kilometers, and the monitoring of the southern regions of the Kuban, as well as the central part of the Crimean Peninsula, is no longer available to it.
The multispectral dome television-infrared complex SYERS-B/C, whose task is to detect the pre-location and deployment of Russian military equipment in the Azov region, in the northern Crimea and in the Kuban, is also unable to conduct effective intelligence. At such a distance, the capabilities of technology are severely limited by the meteorological permeability of the atmosphere.
What is the conclusion? NATO in general and the United States in particular lost their operational “intelligence asset” in the Azov-Black Sea region.
Combined with the existing restrictions on conducting radar and optical-electronic reconnaissance from a satellite group, determined by temporary “flight windows”, this is a serious blow, the consequences of which will inevitably affect the combat capabilities of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Here we should add the loss of an entire complex of modern technological secrets and the unexpectedly sharp reaction of Russia to the provocation, which is already known to Washington.
Translation: SM
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