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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
just reading up on the Tor, it supposed to display the transponder code of the air craft as well if the transponder is on. so a Civilian airliner will be labeled as such and also have a two digit flight number.
In the NYT article yesterday, it said the planes transponder was working until the first missile strike, then was probably destroyed and then the second missile hit 23 seconds later.
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I don't believe this is true. Here is a picture of a TOR TA radar screen:
The TOR does not have an ADS-B receiver, nor does it have ADS-A,C (radar queried ADS request). Thus, the TOR operator has to add that data or someone higher has to give that data to him.
The longer-range radars at other AD sites theoretically
should have seen anything that is approaching the edge of the TOR's radar view and already designated everything. Operators at the battalion or regiment level are the ones that should be watching civilian aircraft and ADS-B. They're the ones that communicate with civilian air traffic controllers. In an integrated environment, neither the TOR operator nor the TA radar computer should be surprised by the appearance of an unidentified, non-designated target. They shouldn't have to worry about looking up takeoff/departure times of
any commercial flights. They wouldn't have time to do that with one target.
However, based on the comments from the IRGC Aerospace Commander, I do not believe this TOR was part of an integrated system as it seems to have been deployed at the last minute as a precaution against American retaliatory strikes. The TOR received orders at 00:00 UTC (0330 local) to deploy to BIDKANEH. Where in BIDKANEH? I do not know and I also do not know when the TOR actually arrived and set-up. It is certainly within the realm of possibility that this flight was the first they saw that day. And if they didn't receive any info from civilian authorities of flights operating...