Japan fighter scramble new Russian Tu-214 elint plane.

hammarö · Post by **hammarö** » 31 Dec 2012, 17:40

“The military parity”. Japan´s Ministry of Defence reported that on 17th December 2012 a Japan Air Force fighter scrambled up to intercept un unidentified aircraft, and found that it was the latest Russian spy plane Tu-214R.

This first appearance of this type of aircraft near Japanese territorial waters. The first prototype of the Tu-214 carried out a test flight in May this year. Identified over the Sea of Japan, the plane had tail number RA-64511.

aviaforum.ru/showthread.php?t=2423&page=28

hammarö · Post by **hammarö** » 01 Jan 2013, 10:33

On the mentioned russian link were is a pic of the aircraft, and a map of the performed route of the spyplane.

The start base of the performed spyfligt must be Vladivostok-Artem. A Pacific Fleet main airbase. The airbase is today heavily rebuilt, with rebuilt runway and new large tarmac with new building. From the base have Il-20 spyflights been performed. Several other versions of Tu-214 have been newly pictured.

The purpose with Tu-214R has been discussed. Piotr Butowski mentioned it as a GRU owned plane. One rather new version of Il-20 has equipment as a missile, thus search new missile research and hostile RCS signals such as Patriot and newer BMD. Japan and other nations are littered by sigint ground stations.

The source of information comes from Japan and Chinese web sides, as seen in the mentioned link side.

hammarö · Post by **hammarö** » 06 Jan 2013, 00:26

The actual flight occured 17 December.

Websides had information 18 December such as:
mil.news.sina.com.cn/2012-12-18/1003710011.html

It would be interested how US sigint aircraft responded.

The RC-135S/V/W is based at Okinawa.

Satellites update Misawa and several Japan sigint groundstations.
All linked via Hawaii

The Tu-214SUS is the first of this version. The second (514) is on building, with official delivery 2014.

Total 22 Tu-214 is delivered, and 29 is ordered with secure version.

hammarö · Post by **hammarö** » 06 Jan 2013, 02:16

Japan website with F-15 and another fighter scrambling the Tu-214R. The Tu-214R were escorted by a pair of Su-27SM and Su-30M2 (must be Centralnaya Uglovaya in Vladivostok).

See
far-maroc.forumpro.fr/t2186p315-armee-japonaise-japan-self-defense-forces

The version of the plane is of course Tu-214R.
Used versions is

Tu-214R 511 and 514 (delivery 2014). SLAR not mounted yet on 514.
Tu-214ON (otktrytoye nebo) (Open Skies)
Tu-214PU (punkt upravleniya)
Tu-214SR (самолет-ретранслятор)
Tu-214SUS (самолёт - узел связи)
Tu-214K delivery 2015 for MChS (Communications Central and medical)

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