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mai on 17 July 2014
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MoHasanie said:
mai said:
Mr Khan said:
A missile at 33,000 ft? Is that possible with the tech the rebels have?

Early mod of the Buk SAM has been probably captured by the rebels, but that's not certain, and I'm not sure if they had all radar equipement to even spot smth at this altitude even if they had one. Earlier they relied on MANPADS, Strela-10 and ZU-23-2 only, this altitude is virtually unreachable for them.

The better question to ask why it even flew through this airspace, shouldn't it have been closed? I clearly remember it was closed. Have a strong feeling of dejavue behind all this. Seems like yet another blast of infowar, hopefully only "info" this time. Will wait for official statements on that to build any hypothesis.

Airlines keep flying through dangerous regions because there are no threats.

Well, yes, Ukraine might have closed airspace but up to certain altitude. 10km is usually a safe distance, but not for a Buk-M1, it has a ceiling of 22km for a target as small as F-15. But 9 chances out of 10 it's an intended hit, not an accident (if it was indeed shot, and shot from the ground).