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Altho most of Turkish down Russia Su-24 thread went down the trash-can, there was one comment worth contemplating:

Originally Posted by Austin
Turkish jets gave us no warning before shooting’ – rescued pilot of downed Russian Su-24

As said before, it was pretty clear that the Russian pilot didn’t hear any warning just by looking at the radar track since the Su-24 didn’t change the flight plan throughout the incident. Now, AFAIK, there are multiple radio frequencies that can be set up in the cockpit and it’s quite possible that the Russian pilots were not listening to the military guard (emergency) frequency while on their mission (which is the frequency the Turkish planes were using presumably). Wouldn’t be the first time; IIRC, the Soviet Su-15 pilot sent several warnings to the KAL flight to change course and the pilots were apparently not aware of those since they continued on their way. Similar thing happened in the USS Vincennes incident. So, if you sent warnings doesn’t mean the other party received them.

Again, a radar STT lock would have sufficed if the Turkish pilots wanted to warn the Su-24 pilot who – seeing the lock warning on the RWR – would surely break away.

…an international agreement of a specified frequency and a radar lock in case of malfunction/oblivious pilot,
before firing, or its a break of international law.

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