Commentary by rusengineer. Commentary by Russian military journalist is n italics:
[ColonelCassad] It is reported that our military was able to recover the valuable components of the MQ-9 Reaper UAV that fell in the Black Sea.
VALUABLE CATCH
The specialized units of the Russian defense department became the owners of invaluable information about the characteristics of a number of critical MQ-9 Reaper electronic components. These are the turret multispectral optoelectronic complex AN/AAS-52, and the complex (container type) of surface radar reconnaissance AN/APY-8, and telemetry and secure satellite communications stations, and the terminal of the Link-16 data exchange system.
From the information received from JSC "KRET" and the Federal State Budgetary Institution "Central Research Institute of the Aerospace Forces of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation", it follows that the specialists of these serious organizations were able not only to study the wiring of the microwave units of the APY-8 radar, but also to determine the energy parameters of its operation, including inverse synthesized (ISAR) and synthesized (SAR) aperture modes.
And also calculate the level of noise immunity and the approximate resolution of the radar, based on the data of the devices for the primary (secondary) conversion of the reflected radar signal.
Moreover, now they will be able to calculate the magnification of long-focus devices and devices of the AN/AAS-52 optoelectronic complex: an infrared sight and a television module. The type or resolution of matrix photodetectors used in it will not become a secret either. Which in the future will allow us to analyze the capabilities of the American complex in identifying and classifying Russian military equipment at different distances and in different weather conditions.
Russian specialists now have access to determining the frequency parameters of telemetry, communication and information exchange via a satellite channel and assessing the Link-16 noise immunity level, which makes it possible to simulate effective countermeasures from Russian electronic warfare systems.
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Not only was they doused with kerosene, they were also interrogated!