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Aviation VKS Russia in the likely confrontation with Turkish «Hawk XXI». Whether the pathos of Ukrainian media is justified?

Russian Aerospace Forces in a likely confrontation with Turkish «Hawk XXI». Whether the pathos of Ukrainian media is justified?

As is known, published two weeks earlier by the Turkish news agency IHA ('Ikhlas) photo deployed on the Turkish-Syrian border (a few kilometers from the northern border of the Big Idlib) the Hawk XXI anti-aircraft missile division overnight became a subject of universal admiration and pathos for comments in the Ukrainian media space, prompting journalists of the notorious information publication Dialogue.ua to prepare a short analytical note, “Turkey deployed the powerful Hawk XXI air defense systems on the border with Syria, able to get Russian aviation ".

From dreams to reality

Technological shortcomings of the radar architecture of the updated military air defense systems "Hawk XXI". What miscalculated Ukrainian pseudo-experts?

undoubtedly, Considering the ongoing active preparations against the Sochi accords, the defense department and the General Staff of the Turkish Armed Forces for the next escalation round in the Idlib theater of operations, providing for the successful counterattack of units of the regular Turkish army and the formations of the Islamic group “Hayyat Tahrir al-Sham” in the direction of previously lost strategically important settlements of Serakib, Maarat en-Numan and the M5 motorway, hysterical jubilation of politically biased Ukrainian media in connection with the appearance of an improved “Hawk XXI” near the “Idlib adder” is justified.

After all, taking into account the tragic situation with the well-planned interception of the Russian Su-24M front-line bomber by the Turkish Air Force AIM-9X Block II, it is easy to come to the conclusion that, that having a range of order 45 km and the height of intercepted targets in 20 km Turkish air defense system "Hawk XXI" may well be involved in counteracting tactical aviation of the Aerospace Forces of Russia and the Syrian Air Force, providing aviation support to the defense units of the 4th Mechanized Division and the 25th Division of the Special Forces of the Syrian Arab Army.

meanwhile, operating with only two main (the above) parameters of the Hawk XXI complex, Dialogue's pseudo-experts provided an ordinary Ukrainian audience with a biased forecast of the scenario of a likely collision of multi-role fighters of the Russian Aerospace Forces and the Syrian Air Force with the battery of the updated Turkish Hawk.

In particular, even despite the possibility of equipping the updated Hawk XXI air defense system with a more advanced all-angle illumination and guidance radar AN / MPQ-61 HIPIR with an expanded scanning elevation zone, providing work on small targets at heights of 25-30 m, as well as the fact of deployment of the Turkish Hawk XXI air defense battery at a height of several tens of meters (judging by the photos, published by the Ihlas news agency), providing AN / MPQ-61 backlight radar with a range of 45–55 km, the chance of maintaining combat stability in this complex will be negligible. Why?

Application of the outdated paired X-band parabolic antenna arrays in the electronic architecture of the AN / MPQ-61HIPIR radars (similar to those used in early on-load tap-changers AN / MPQ-46), MIM-23K / J anti-aircraft missiles designed to illuminate targets by a semi-active strategic missile target system and transmit additional radio correction commands to the aerodynamic control wheels, kept the target channel of one Hawk XXI air defense system at the same level - one intercepted target.

Russian Aerospace Forces in a likely confrontation with Turkish «Hawk XXI». Whether the pathos of Ukrainian media is justified?

The Russian military conducted a successful patrols on three routes in Syria

As is known, in the event of the likely use of multi-purpose fighter-bomber Su-34 Russian aerospace forces 3,5-, 4-missile anti-radar missiles X-58U, or 2.2-fly multi-purpose tactical missiles of the X-38MTE / MAE family, single-channel air defense systems "Hawk XXI" instantly turn into mountains of useless scrap metal, as well as in the case of a meeting with the Syrian Su-24M, equipped with X-25MPU anti-radar missiles. And this is not to mention the extremely low level of noise immunity of the receiving paths of the HIPIR radar parabolic antennas, practically incapable of counteracting the interference from the container systems of the electronic warfare of the Khibiny family.

Eugene Damantsev

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