Attack on US military installations in Syria. Successful actions of Iranian UAVs with the information support of the Russian Aerospace Forces

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A strike carried out a few days earlier by a squad of five kamikaze UAVs on the barracks and outbuildings of the US Army and the ILC, as well as the infrastructure of the Magavir al-Saura militia in a 55-kilometer "security zone" near Al-Tanf in the south of the Syrian province of Homs continues to remain in the focus of increased attention of both domestic and foreign military-analytical portals.

Such a high level of relevance in the above segment of the media space, this event is due to several interesting nuances of an operational-tactical and military-political nature.



The latter, in turn, testify to the maximum scrupulousness in the elaboration of each stage of this air operation with the use of modern specialized optical-electronic, radar and radio-technical reconnaissance means, which are not at the disposal of the regular Shiite paramilitary units in the territories of the SAR and Iraq.

Low-altitude modes of use of Iranian kamikaze UAVs in the course of striking the military infrastructure of the US Army and ILCM near Et-Tanf ensured overcoming the A2 / AD anti-aircraft zone formed by the Patriot PAC-3MSE complexes


In particular, 5 drones-kamikaze (including, apparently, drones of the Qasif-K2 and Samad-3 line) were able to absolutely unhindered overcome the anti-aircraft zone of restriction and prohibition of access and maneuver A2 / AD, erected over the 55-kilometer "security zone" and Al-Tanf by means of a battery Patriot PAC-3MSE multi-channel anti-missile system, which has a multi-functional target designation-guidance radar based on the AN / MPQ-53/65 passive phased array with the ability to detect targets with an ultra-low RCS of about 0,02–0,05 square meters. m at a distance of 45–80 km.

Moreover, the division could well have been assigned a multifunctional radar of the decimeter S-band AN / TPS-75 Tipsy, capable of performing all-round visibility in standby mode.

The use of this radar could be required in the case when the single battery AN / TPQ-53/65 radar of the Patriot complex is either deactivated and is inactive to prevent the aimless exhaustion of the operational resource (time between failures of the microwave klystron and arrays of transmitting and receiving PFAR modules) , or monitors the 90-degree azimuth sector in another missile-hazardous aerospace direction.

After all, it is well known that the MPQ-53/65 family of radar does not function in the all-aspect all-round mode.

But the TPS-75 (and possibly other auxiliary radar target designation systems or electronic reconnaissance systems capable of detecting and accompanying UAVs, or bearing them according to the radiation of the antenna of the asynchronous data exchange / telemetry module) could not cover American military objects from Iranian drones -kamikaze.

Analyzing the above circumstances, a number of very interesting conclusions can be drawn.

First of all, this is the construction of the most optimal ultra-low-altitude flight routes for attacking UAVs, taking into account the tactical and technical shortcomings of both the AN / MPQ-53/65 multifunctional guidance / targeting radars and AN / TPS-75 radar detectors known in the knowledgeable circles.

We are talking about limited minimum elevation angles (the lower limits of the elevation sector of view), which are 1 degree for the AN / MPQ-65 and 0,5 degrees for the Tipsy, which allows the former to detect, "tie tracks" and "capture" airborne objects on heights of 30 m or more, and the second - about 20 m.

As a result, the ultra-low-altitude flight of drones 15 m from the earth's surface completely ruled out their confident detection and tracking by means of the above-mentioned radars of the duty and combat modes of the Patriot PAC-3MSE complex.

It is worth noting that, for example, the passive HEADLIGHTS of the domestic all-altitude detector VVO 96L6 and the medium / low-altitude detector 48Ya6-K1 "Podlet-K1" heights of 3–2 m or above lowlands (well below the position of the radar data deployed on an elevated area of ​​the terrain).

Moreover, the presence in the eastern part of this desert region of Homs governorate of a vast low-lying area of ​​relief, well known to operators of kamikaze drones, could contribute to even more effective concealment of "creeping" drones, due to the use of the effect of the so-called "terrain screen", which limits the formation of meter, decimeter and centimeter radar diagrams.

In the same turn, it is well known that the MIM-104F missile-guided missile interceptors of the Patriot PAC-3MSE anti-missile systems have high-energy active millimeter-wave Ka-band radar seeker, which have receivers of an asynchronous two-way data exchange line with third-party ground, ship and air radar and optical - electronic intelligence of the Armed Forces and NATO Joint Armed Forces.

Using these receiving modules ARGSN missiles MIM-104F PAC-3MSE could receive target designation for approaching Iranian kamikaze drones from AWACS AWACS aircraft, strategic radio and electronic reconnaissance aircraft RC-135V / W Block 8 Rivet Joint and even radars AN / APG-81 fighters of the F-35A / B / C family (by means of retransmission by the command and control center EOC / IBCS), after which the UAV could be intercepted even with the inactivity of the AN / MPQ-53/65 divisional radar and beyond the radio horizon.

But this did not happen, since neither the E-3C / G Sentry nor the tactical aviation US Air Force capable of detecting these drones at a distance of about 75-100 km.

Obviously, information about the most acceptable time period for this strike to the command post of one of the UAV squadrons of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps could be transmitted either by the operators of the Shmel-M radar of the RLDN A-50U aircraft, or by the operators of the 96L6 surveillance radar assigned to the Syrian air defense missile launcher S-300PM2, deployed near Masyaf.

Completeness of the picture is given by the fact that the strike on the 55-kilometer "security zone" followed literally exactly after the use of the airspace over this area by the F-16I Sufa crews to launch Delilah-AL tactical missiles at the T4 airbase of the Syrian Air Force, where garrison of the paramilitary unit of the IRGC "Al-Quds".

In light of the strengthening and intensification of military-technical cooperation between Moscow and Tehran, achieved during negotiations between the Chief of the General Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces Mohammad Bagheri and the head of the Russian defense department Sergei Shoigu, this operation by the IRGC, carried out not without information support from the Russian Aerospace Forces, is a very symbolic demonstration to the Pentagon and Tel Aviv of the spectrum of consequences that will be fraught with any attempts to trample Iran's interests in the Near East region.
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  1. +10
    25 October 2021 15: 04
    And why is it Iran and Russia, like there were no statements?
    1. +3
      25 October 2021 15: 24
      Quote: 75Sergey
      And why is it Iran and Russia, like there were no statements?

      Agree. Everything is not as straightforward as the author presents it.
      The same USA, Britain and Israel could have planned a similar "strike" in order to once again put Iran in the light they needed.
      Yes, and nothing of the kind was heard about the results of this "strike" and its effectiveness, despite the fact that the American media would have written more than one novel about the "heroic actions of staunch American soldiers" in such a difficult situation, under the blows of Iranian thugs.
      1. -9
        25 October 2021 16: 51
        The same USA, Britain and Israel could have planned a similar "strike" in order to once again put Iran in the light they needed.

        Are elves bombing elves? )))
        , despite the fact that the American media would have written more than one novel about the "heroic actions of the staunch American soldiers" in such a difficult situation, under the blows of Iranian thugs.

        Yes, because this is the second epic failure of the American air defense, which demonstrates that - and the king is naked)))
        Who will fan the epic failure?
        1. 0
          26 October 2021 10: 46
          Quote: lucul
          Are elves bombing elves?

          Why not adopt the formula of one very European and very democratic state?
          "They shot themselves"
          "They blew themselves up"
          "They set themselves on fire"
  2. +24
    25 October 2021 15: 14
    Yes ... the appearance failed. The long title, instantly betrayed the author ... Light, ours, Damantsev ..
    1. +1
      26 October 2021 07: 45
      And who and for what puts the minuses ???? the author is recognizable from the title - and for this a minus ??? And there are always three downsides ...
    2. +3
      26 October 2021 10: 39
      I myself did not believe before that people do not read, but write comments. So I got to this, I immediately read the comments that can be much more meaningful than the article itself.
    3. +4
      26 October 2021 10: 40
      Quote: Daniil Konovalenko

      Light, ours, Damantsev ..

      and he always has it like this?
      Quote: author
      The ground forces and the USMC near Al-Tanf ensured overcoming the air defense zone A2 / ADformed by Patriot PAC-3MSE complexes

      belay
      after all A2 / AD are zones of restriction and denial of access and maneuver created by the Russian Federation and China!

      + Chinese around Taiwan and artificial sea islands in the Spratly archipelago
      https://www.understandingwar.org/sites/default/files/Russian%20A2AD%20AUGUST%202016_1.pdf
      not a word about American and Et-Tanf
      at Et-Tanf there is
      - MLRS / OTRK HIMARS of the US Armed Forces
      - armored vehicles
      UAV
      - Air cover from NATO bases.
      But there is NO
      Quote: author
      batteries of the Patriot PAC-3MSE multichannel anti-missile system, which has a multifunctional targeting-guidance radar based on the AN / MPQ-53/65 passive HEADLIGHT with the ability to detect targets with ultra-low RCS of about 0,02–0,05 sq. m at a distance of 45–80 km.

      base view

      gopher Patriot (AN / MPQ-53/65) see? and he IS
      Officials (Pentagon) said these drones were Iranian and Iran seems to have facilitated their use

      A warning was issued, all the Americans hid. The UAVs seem to have missed their mark.
      CNN has not heard of Patriot, A2 / AD, or "Russian" trace

      This narration is like delirium in the ward of the mad
      1. +2
        26 October 2021 15: 01
        Quote: ja-ja-vw
        A warning was issued, all the Americans hid. The UAVs seem to have missed their mark.
        CNN has not heard of Patriot, A2 / AD, or "Russian" trace

        You seem to be right. hi
      2. +1
        26 October 2021 21: 00
        It would be interesting to hear more information on this case from you. At first I was also angry with the headline, but now I tend to agree with you, the chamber and all that.
        1. 0
          26 October 2021 21: 34
          Quote: yaglon
          It would be interesting to hear from you some more information on this case.

          Well, what other information can I give?
          1. On the base of Et-Tanfa and around and around the Patriot PAC-3MSE complexes (MSE, for sure: from which ballistic missiles to defend?) There are none at all, they are not in Syria and are no longer in Turkey
          2.AN/TPS-75 Tipsy may be, but doubts gnaw: what for?
          75 is the competence of the US Air Force, so it’s not in Et-Tanfa to use it. What's the point
          3. There is no A2 / AD on the base of Et-Tanfa and cannot be. This is an American / NATO term for the air defense zones of the Russian Federation and the PRC
          4. The author seems to be paranoid, but I'm not a doctor
          5. The Russians to the Iranian UAV raid, not in any way: ours will not do this, and HOW they can "help" the Iranians.
          For the rest, read
          FSB Order No. 379 "A list of information in the field of military, military-technical activities of the Russian Federation, which, when received by a foreign state, its state bodies, an international or foreign organization, foreign citizens or stateless persons, can be used against the security of the Russian Federation" from ??? October 2021
          request
  3. +23
    25 October 2021 15: 14
    Damantsev ...
    "... might well be ... might be required ... might ... might be ..."
    Some work has been done to highlight possible facts.
    Keep it up!
  4. -2
    25 October 2021 15: 19
    So IM-SHORAD will appear soon. It is strange that they are still not there.
    1. -4
      25 October 2021 16: 42
      So IM-SHORAD will appear soon. It is strange that they are still not there.

      Are you sure you weren't? ))))
      1. -1
        25 October 2021 18: 22
        Are you sure you weren't? ))))

        Most likely it was not. Not 100%, but ...
  5. +7
    25 October 2021 15: 26
    These are all the consequences of the American air defense concept, in turn, stemming from the fact that the United States is behind a puddle. Therefore, their ground-based air defense is frankly weak, to say nothing. Well, all the time to patrol AWACS even they do not have enough resources.
    The trouble is that it doesn't really help us with our defense strategy.
  6. +25
    25 October 2021 15: 28
    5 kamikaze drones were able to completely overcome the anti-aircraft zone erected over the 55-kilometer “security zone” and Et-Tanf using the battery of the Patriot PAC-3MSE multi-channel anti-missile system

    It was necessary to smack them on these air defense systems. Didn't guess ...
    1. +1
      27 October 2021 07: 53
      It was necessary to smack them on these air defense systems. Didn't guess ..


      They did not guess, but they could, if there were Patriot air defense systems. The news from Damantsev, the most versed author of VO in abbreviations, is nonsense that he composed, the main thing is that it looks believable because of the many names of technology.
  7. +10
    25 October 2021 15: 28
    5 kamikaze drones (including, apparently...
    the division is quite could be added multifunctional radar
    Most likely, but it is also possible, as if it could be more likely, but in a completely different way. Although it is quite possible that it was apparently ... laughing
  8. +6
    25 October 2021 15: 32
    Wait, I looked for this news, it seemed like it came from the Kurds-truth-tellers. The most important thing is that no one was hurt.
    1. +3
      25 October 2021 15: 58
      Americans are extremely reluctant to admit their losses. For example, after last year's strike by Iranian ballistic missiles on an American base in Iraq, the Americans did not acknowledge the loss for almost six months. And only after they were pinned down, they reluctantly agreed that more than a hundred servicemen allegedly received the ChMT. Although judging by the photographs, I am more inclined to believe Iran, they said there were 80 godforsaken.
    2. +7
      25 October 2021 16: 00

      ok so it flew in. This is last year's photo
  9. +18
    25 October 2021 15: 34
    At the end of the article, this phrase should have been written:
    "Any resemblance to real events is accidental."
    1. +9
      25 October 2021 15: 54
      The author is a dreamer! It would be great to know how it really happened.
      1. -14
        25 October 2021 16: 46
        The author is a dreamer! It would be great to know how it really happened.

        Can you put forward your own version of what happened? Someone hit on the amerskoy base (fact), so that the amerskoy air defense was epic, just like in Saudi Arabia. Who could it be ? )))
        The Patriots did not notice the blow - the Iron Dome will not notice any more)))
        1. 0
          25 October 2021 16: 50
          You yourself write, someone! Meriknians have few friends there, there could be anyone. Maybe our Syrians have been taught !?
          1. -12
            25 October 2021 16: 55
            You yourself write, someone! Meriknians have few friends there, there could be anyone. Maybe our Syrians have been taught !?

            Could someone who possesses such technologies that allow amerskoe air defense to pass like a knife through butter. Mmm .... let me think .... who could it be .... mmm ... aliens from Nubiru, no?
            1. +4
              25 October 2021 16: 57
              And the air defense was there for sure?
              1. -9
                25 October 2021 17: 00
                And the air defense was there for sure?

                Indeed, why is it on the amerskoy base and air defense - these are light elves, who will attack them.
                Mmm ... let me think - maybe there was no weapon at the amerskoy base? Why do elves need weapons? )))
              2. +3
                25 October 2021 21: 48
                Do you suspect the brave amers of the fact that they secretly drain the cooling agent from the Patriots and drive bourbon out of it?
        2. +3
          25 October 2021 17: 07
          // noticed the blow by the Patriots - the Iron Dome will not notice any more))) //
          And these are not the goals of the LCD .. He solves his goals by 90 percent ..
          1. 0
            26 October 2021 03: 20
            Quote: Shahno
            And these are not the goals of the LCD ...

            This information is outdated for a long time.
        3. +2
          26 October 2021 05: 58
          Quote: lucul
          so that the amerskoe air defense was epic, just like in Saudi Arabia.

          And before that, in Iraq, so it was able to repel a missile attack on their base ... Yeah, already twice
    2. +1
      26 October 2021 05: 52
      Quote: svp67
      At the end of the article, this phrase should have been written:
      "Any resemblance to real events is accidental."

      With a postscript, but most likely it may well, with some degree of probability quite, most likely, somewhere this action could have been, although not fully and not in the same volume and in a completely different way.
  10. -1
    25 October 2021 15: 38
    blow to barracks and outbuildings

    And where are the victims of the strike? Or someone warned someone?
    1. 0
      26 October 2021 05: 58
      Quote: Canecat
      Or someone warned someone?

      And this is a secret behind seven seals ... the author did not think about it
  11. +7
    25 October 2021 15: 47
    The whole article, this is fortune telling on the coffee grounds, either it was, or it was not.
  12. +17
    25 October 2021 15: 51
    If Damantsev was not on this forum, he would have to be invented))))) This "expert" amuses the people with his every publication. Not everyone can drive such "empty" ... This is an art))))))
    1. +9
      25 October 2021 15: 59
      He uses something forbidden, so from a fake, to be able to inflate at the beginning of hostilities.
      1. -15
        25 October 2021 16: 49
        He uses something forbidden, so from a fake, to be able to inflate at the beginning of hostilities.

        Ah, so it was aliens from Nubiru that caused a fire at the American base, didn't they? )))
    2. +1
      26 October 2021 05: 55
      Quote: drags33
      Not everyone can drive such "empty" ... This is an art))))))

      It’s hard to disagree, even the “great reporter” Skomorokhov cannot do that. laughing laughing drinks
  13. +1
    25 October 2021 15: 58
    carried out not without the information support of the Russian Aerospace Forces, is a very symbolic demonstration to the Pentagon and Tel Aviv of the spectrum of consequences that would be fraught with any attempts to trample Iran's interests in the Western Asian region.


    This is probably why at night someone destroyed the weapons depots on the territory of Syria. Attributed to the Israeli Air Force
  14. +5
    25 October 2021 16: 03
    I think that Russia is far-fetched here. Iran can carry out such an operation on its own.
  15. +15
    25 October 2021 16: 15
    To this article, you need to allow obscene comments. Otherwise, one cannot express the full height of the spiritual elation from such analytics.
    1. +3
      25 October 2021 18: 18
      If you smelled the same thing that the author smelled before writing the article, you could well enjoy reading this material.
      1. -1
        26 October 2021 03: 22
        Quote: Pashhenko Nikolay
        If you smelled the same thing that the author smelled before writing the article, you could well enjoy reading this material.

        A common man in the street does not smell so much, hardening is needed here. wassat
  16. BAI
    +10
    25 October 2021 16: 18
    Obviously, information about the most acceptable time period for this strike to the command post of one of the UAV squadrons of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps could be transmitted either by the operators of the Shmel-M radar of the RLDN A-50U aircraft, or by the operators of the 96L6 surveillance radar assigned to the Syrian air defense missile launcher S-300PM2, deployed near Masyaf.


    this operation by the IRGC, carried out not without the information support of the Russian Aerospace Forces, is a very symbolic demonstration


    And where did the author get the idea that Russia participated here?
    Another attempt by the site to give a reason for the enemies of Russia to attack Russia again?
    There are few accusations and sanctions in connection with "interference in the US elections", so the author still claims that Russia was involved in the strikes on US military facilities?
    With such "patriots" no enemies are needed.
  17. +6
    25 October 2021 16: 24
    Another thoughtful reasoning on assumptions, conjectures and guesses smile
  18. +6
    25 October 2021 16: 37
    Damantsev .. I haven't read his collections of abbreviations for a long time :)
  19. +2
    25 October 2021 16: 39
    The version, it is the version ... for the technical aspects of the article, you can argue / not argue, but everything else is OBS.
  20. WWI
    -2
    25 October 2021 21: 47
    mm
    Quote: DmSol
    Americans are extremely reluctant to admit their losses. For example, after last year's strike by Iranian ballistic missiles on an American base in Iraq, the Americans did not acknowledge the loss for almost six months. And only after they were pinned down, they reluctantly agreed that more than a hundred servicemen allegedly received the ChMT. Although judging by the photographs, I am more inclined to believe Iran, they said there were 80 godforsaken.

    well done Iranians
  21. +2
    25 October 2021 22: 28
    Information support is propaganda and counter-propaganda activities, now mainly in the media and the Internet, it is possible to stir up the noise in the UN.
    But intelligence and communications are types of combat support, that is, actual participation in hostilities. Even in contrast to, say, logistics and resource support.
    Therefore, it is not necessary to scatter the terms very easily at random - behind them you can see a lot of things.
  22. +6
    25 October 2021 23: 17
    Oh and nonsense ...
    It is necessary to have such an inflamed mind in order to come up with a bunch of actions that simply either did not exist, or cannot be in principle ...
    1. 0
      26 October 2021 18: 37
      So I did not understand this is a crooked translation or the author is not at all in the subject
  23. sen
    +2
    26 October 2021 12: 19
    About the UAV. At the ADEX-2021 exhibition, the South Korean corporation KAI presented a full-size mock-up of a promising Marine Attack Helicopter capable of using multifunctional MUM-T UAVs. The MUM-T will be available in four different trim levels, each designed for one type of mission, including reconnaissance, electronic warfare and strikes against specific targets. MUM-T will be able to fly for two hours and reach a maximum speed of 150 kilometers per hour. A total of 17 MUM-T launchers can be installed on the MAH helicopter.
    https://naked-science.ru/article/tech/korejtsy-pokazali-maket-novogo-boevogo-vertoleta-vooruzhennogo-optsionalno-udarnymi-bespilotnikami
  24. 0
    26 October 2021 17: 30
    Completeness of the picture is given by the fact that the strike on the 55-kilometer "security zone" followed literally exactly after the use of the airspace over this area by the F-16I Sufa crews to launch Delilah-AL tactical missiles at the T4 airbase of the Syrian Air Force, where garrison of the paramilitary unit of the IRGC "Al-Quds".

    I understand the words, I lose the meaning ...
  25. 0
    27 October 2021 12: 42
    So there the air conditioners exploded from the excessive heat.
  26. 0
    28 October 2021 18: 01
    The entire set of highly specialized terms that characterize the air defense of the base, painted on 2 sheets, can be expressed in one word - ABM ...... SLEEP laughing
  27. +1
    1 November 2021 14: 39
    this operation by the IRGC, carried out not without the information support of the Russian Aerospace Forces, is a very symbolic demonstration to the Pentagon and Tel Aviv

    Successful actions of Iranian UAVs with the information support of the Russian Aerospace Forces


    VO turns yellow. Fall to the level of avia.pro. Sorry, sorry.
    Next to it is an article about the non-existent teachings of the Poles, now here is Damantsev with his ... how to put it mildly UG ...
    I understand that many are waiting for his articles to "laugh cleanly", since they do not cause any other interest, but still the administration needs to be more attentive to his unhealthy fantasies, no?
    Why does VO get dirty about Damantseva?
  28. 0
    11 December 2021 00: 37
    Successful actions of Iranian UAVs with the information support of the Russian Aerospace Forces

    - And Putin has already told Biden about this ?! laughing lol

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