no. That case did very impressively demonstrate complete rottenness and impotence of the System. There is nothing to eat, no goods to buy, etc... yet at least the mighty military protects the country. And here that big Opppsss! The King wasn't just naked, his guns had completely rusted (didn't intend, yet the pun just naturally came about). The mighty military happened to be at about the same state as the rest of the country. The Berlin Wall fell 5 month late together with the others https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutions_of_1989.
> After determining this was a slow moving commuter aircraft, Mathias Rust had a combat number assigned to him, and SAM tracking for the majority of his 3 hour flight into red square.
that tracking number was mistakenly assigned to different objects in the sky when transferred between air defense zones. Had they decided to blow it off the sky, it could have been something else entirely, not Rust.
"Air defence re-established contact with Rust's plane several times but confusion followed all of these events. The PVO system had shortly before been divided into several districts, which simplified management but created additional overhead for tracking officers at the districts' borders. The local air regiment near Pskov was on maneuvers and, due to inexperienced pilots' tendency to forget correct IFF designator settings, local control officers assigned all traffic in the area friendly status, including Rust.[1]
Near Torzhok there was a similar situation, as increased air traffic was created by a rescue effort for an air crash the previous day. Rust, flying a slow propeller-driven aircraft, was confused with one of the helicopters taking part in the rescue. He was spotted several more times and given false friendly recognition twice. Rust was considered as a domestic training plane defying regulations, and was issued least priority.[1] "
no. That case did very impressively demonstrate complete rottenness and impotence of the System. There is nothing to eat, no goods to buy, etc... yet at least the mighty military protects the country. And here that big Opppsss! The King wasn't just naked, his guns had completely rusted (didn't intend, yet the pun just naturally came about). The mighty military happened to be at about the same state as the rest of the country. The Berlin Wall fell 5 month late together with the others https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutions_of_1989.
> After determining this was a slow moving commuter aircraft, Mathias Rust had a combat number assigned to him, and SAM tracking for the majority of his 3 hour flight into red square.
that tracking number was mistakenly assigned to different objects in the sky when transferred between air defense zones. Had they decided to blow it off the sky, it could have been something else entirely, not Rust.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathias_Rust#Flight_profile
"Air defence re-established contact with Rust's plane several times but confusion followed all of these events. The PVO system had shortly before been divided into several districts, which simplified management but created additional overhead for tracking officers at the districts' borders. The local air regiment near Pskov was on maneuvers and, due to inexperienced pilots' tendency to forget correct IFF designator settings, local control officers assigned all traffic in the area friendly status, including Rust.[1]
Near Torzhok there was a similar situation, as increased air traffic was created by a rescue effort for an air crash the previous day. Rust, flying a slow propeller-driven aircraft, was confused with one of the helicopters taking part in the rescue. He was spotted several more times and given false friendly recognition twice. Rust was considered as a domestic training plane defying regulations, and was issued least priority.[1] "