Guest Column From George Abert,
Formerly Of Air Force Intelligence
Why did Turkey shoot down a Russian
Air Force jet?
Turkey is so militarily inferior to
Russia that it is unlikely Turkey would commit an act of war against Russia
without encouragement from Washington. We might think that Turkey would feel
shielded by NATO, but it is doubtful that many European members of NATO would
risk nuclear annihiliation by going to war with Russia in order to save Turkey
from the consequences of such a reckless and irresponsible act as shooting down
a Russian military aircraft and lying about it. Turkey has issued no apology
and no believable explanation. Unless Erdogan has lost his mind, Washington is
behind the shootdown, and the reason is Washington’s desperation to decode the
new Russian technology that gives Russian forces total control over a
battlefield, whether on land, sea, or air.
When the Russians deployed their
forces to Syria they also deployed some new stealth technology. So far as I
know they’ve only used this technology in Syria twice, once during their first
sortie and one other time when some Israeli Air Force jets entered what they
knew was Russian operational airspace.
As noted, the first use of this
stealth technology was during the first Russian sortie. In accordance with
protocols agreed to beforehand with Israel and the US, the Russians informed
the US of their intent to launch a sortie. They did so an hour prior to the
launch. When they did they also employed a new stealth technology. The technology
effectively blinded both the US and Israel. None of the radars worked and most,
if not all, satellite coverage was lost or compromised as well. But there’s
more.
About a week after Putin’s UN
General Assembly address the Israelis launched a sortie into Syria which flew
into airspace that was under Russian operational control. Russian air
controllers warned the Israelis that they had violated Russian controlled
airspace. When the Israelis ignored the Russian air controllers, the stealth
technology was employed a second time. The Israeli aircraft are equipped with
two radars, one for fire acquisition and the other for fire control. Both are
advanced and employ frequency-skipping technology to avoid being jammed. Both
radars were effectively jammed. These aircraft have multiple telemetry
data-links to their base. These were shut down. The only communications channel
left was the high-frequency AM band normally used by civilian air traffic
controllers. After the stealth technology was turned on and it was clear to the
Russians that the Israelis knew they had been shut down, the Russian air
traffic controllers used this AM band to tell the Israelis to scram. The
Israelis complied.
Whatever this technology is, it’s a
game changer and I’m certain that breaking this technology has been given an
extremely high priority.
So why did Turkey shoot down the
Russian jet?
I suspect somebody wants the
Russians to start using this stealth technology more often, often enough for
its weaknesses to be exposed. Shooting down that Russian jet might just get the
Russians motivated to do that.
If I’m correct I bet every Raven
and ELINT specialist in the business has been deployed to that theater of
operations to hack this one! One can only imagine how many resources are being
amassed.
Dr. Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy and associate editor of the Wall Street Journal. He was columnist for Business Week, Scripps Howard News Service, and Creators Syndicate. He has had many university appointments. His internet columns have attracted a worldwide following. Roberts' latest books areThe Failure of Laissez Faire Capitalism and Economic Dissolution of the West
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