John Jaeger, one of two co-founders of Hala System, an early warning alert system linked to sirens inside rebel-held areas in Syria that warns people ahead of an airstrike, is pictured at his office in Turkey September 11, 2018. REUTERS/Umit Bektas
Reuters: Air strike warning app helps Syrians dodge death from the skies
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - A Russian military aircraft thunders into the sky at 4.47 pm from Russia’s air base at Hmeimim in western Syria, veering to the east.
An observer takes note of all three details, opens a phone app and enters the information into three designated fields.
Fourteen minutes later and 100 kilometers away, Abdel Razzaq sees the aircraft flying over his town of Maaret al-Numan. He opens his own app and types: Maaret al-Numan, Russian military aircraft, headed northeast.
The data is processed by a program, known as Sentry, that estimates the plane’s trajectory and sends a warning, triggering Facebook and Telegram messages, Tweets and, most importantly, loud sirens throughout cities in opposition-held Syria.
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This is an old technique but modernized. B-52' were reported when they lifted off from Thai airstrips to bomb the socialist workers paradise of N. Vietnam in the 60's.
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