Fred J. McCall wrote:
Volker Hetzer wrote:

:What did they mistake that airliner for anyway? A strategic bomber or what?
:And which of the enemies they were engaged with had bombers made by airbus?

If you don't know this then you don't know anything about the
incident. It is also clear that you don't know anything about radar.

The radar paint is not marked 'Airbus'.
I know that. I also did know someone working at a radar point in east germany.
And echoes do differ. Maybe not enough to tell an f14 from an f18 but a
big plane ought to have stood out.

The transponder block is supposed to tell you what is going on. It is
based on what the transponder on the aircraft does in response to the
radar paint.
Right. And did the airbus' transponder work?
Then they've done what's expected from a civilian airliner, which was the
issue I was responding to.

Greetings!
Volker