Did Russia mistake an SU-34M Bomber for HIMARS missiles?

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On July 17th, 2022, a SU-34M bomber was shot down over the Alchevsk region of Luhansk, Occupied Ukraine. It was speculated that this was a Friendly Fire incident from a Russian S-400 anti-aircraft system.

Some people have theorized that this was due to Russia's desperation to shoot down HIMARS rockets. However, HIMARS rockets and SU-34 aircraft have two different kinds of flight profiles.

I believe that that the plane was shot down due to a bad IFF transponder and has noting to do with HIMARS.

References:

Russian Su-34M fighter in the Alchevsk region was shot down by its own air defense. The calculation of the air defense system tried to "work" on HIMARS missiles
https://theins.ru/news/253277

Registration number:
https://twitter.com/vcdgf555/status/1549018272447602689?s=20&t=FvaDdUyrdjXGdO6-3nsD3w

SU-34
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukhoi_Su-34

Patriot Tornado shootdown
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/uk/2004/may/15/iraq.military