Malaysian Airlines plane shot down in Ukraine.

Originally posted by exberliner1 ↑

It's quite simple really.

All Ukrainian BUK missile systems are accounted for.

So the system(s) used by the terrorists last week must have come from somewhere else. That somewhere else would be Russia of course.

The BUK is an extremely complicated piece of kit consisting of 4 wheeled vehicles containing all the supporting radar tracking systems and ID technology so that one does not shoot down one's own planes in a battle zone.

If the supporting vehicles are damaged in any way it is still possible to use a BUK using just the tracked vehicle on which the missiles are mounted by itself. This has limited radar and ID possibilities but it will still fire missiles basically on a fire and forget basis using the limited radar system or, depending on the missiles actually loaded on a fire and forget basis using heat seeking technology. It should be added that a 777 running at cruising speed with unshielded engines will make a very attractive heat signature to a missile fired in this manner. It was the lone launch vehicle that was seen in the terrorist held area just before the attack.

Using a BUK is however not a simple process, I have attached a photo of the control panel in the main launch vehicle.

It takes months of training to be able to launch one of these missiles as intended. There are plenty of photos and videos of BUKs driving around the area of the MH17 crash site on the day the plane was destroyed. This area is entirely controlled by the Russian backed terrorists.

The question therefore is quite simple, was it a Russian operator who fired the missile, or, as with all the other hardware supplied to the terrorists from Russia, was the BUK simply handed over to them without its operating personnel, bearing in mind there most of the people running DPR and LPR are actually Russians.

If it was the latter then it is very likely that the missile was launched on a fire and forget / heat seeking basis basis by an untrained terrorist operator who had probably has recent success in shooting down a Ukrainian cargo plane with same system.

The fact that hours after the attack on MH17 a BUK was filmed being driven back back over the Russian border (on both sides of the border) by both Russian and Ukrainian dashboard cams fitted to passing vehicles would indicate that the second option is probably more likely.

So, does Russia supplying advance SAMs to a terrorist group who then fire missiles into a commercial passenger plane route shooting down a passenger jet make Russia complicit in this outrage?

To my mind it does. Those who arm and finance terrorists are terrorists themselves at least that is so in what we term the civilised world.

EB

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Shame HC will not let me insert a photo, so here is a link to the photo of the control panel.

http://www.google.com.ua/imgres?img...iact=rc&uact=3&dur=6978&page=1&start=0&ndsp=3

EB