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Ok, let's unpack that

Two aircraft were in the air, an F-16 and a Su-35

The Su-35 used an onboard system, probably LPI radar, to light up the F-16 and relayed the data to a SAM site on the ground.

And the SAM flew up, ignored the Su-36 and took out the F-16.

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That's a whole bunch of, "That usually doesn't work all that well," that Ivan has figured out how to make work well.

Traditionally, SAMs are set up in corridors and CAP flights have their own corridors and the two don't mix because SAMs really don't do IFF all that well.