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Is the Russian MiG-31BM fighter shot down by a P-33 rocket?

The missile shot down a Russian MiG-31BM fighter.

According to the information provided by the Baza.io resource, referring to the report published by Aviaprom, the supersonic MiG-31BM interceptor fighter, which was reported by the media in April of 2017, was destroyed by the P-33 rocket.

“... the accident of the MiG-31 aircraft was the result of an omission in the activities of officials in the organization of the LUT [tactical flight exercises - Approx. ed. “Base”] (at LTU, a method of searching and destroying the target with two MiG-31 aircraft was used, which did not exclude their mutual getting into the zone of allowed launches of the P-33 guided missiles) ... ”- said in the message.

In fact, this means that the combat aircraft was shot down due to the failure of the “friend-foe” recognition system, which was caused by the proximity of two combat aircraft.

It should be clarified that as a result of the incident, casualties were avoided - the crew managed to eject and were not injured, which raises a number of questions from experts as to whether the data on the missile hitting the plane correspond to reality, but no official comments on this matter were provided.

Dear Vitaly, they launched a target. It does not have state equipment. recognition.

They made a start on the target. There is no state equipment. recognition.

I don’t know what is the reason for such cases, but I do know for certain that this is not the only case in the history of our Air Force. In the late 80s, at the training ground in Sary-Shagan, Kazakhstan, on flights ostentatious for foreign buyers, a wingman on a MIG shot down the host again on MIG. They explained later that the rocket head re-captured the brighter target instead of the target. That is, the launch was carried out at a target that, naturally, did not respond to "friendly", and then there was a re-capture of "own" aircraft.

--- 21 PFM! Especially for you it is said! : "friend or foe" system blocks start !!! The launch itself is impossible on the target, from which the answer "my" was received ...

State system identification blocks missile launch when receiving a response from "friend".

Bardak terrible in combat training.

State system identification has nothing to do with it. The missile is equipped with a radio fuse which gave the command to undermine the warhead when receiving a reflected signal from the nearest piece of iron. Pure security breach.

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