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Originally Posted by Sly
From what I read last night (I'm sure our Russian friends will correct me) the BUK system has 3 vehicles. Two of them are basically the brains, one is the braun. The braun can work on its own without the brains, but clearly it's capabilities would be limited. It is able to detect friendly aircraft, but it cannot identify what unfriendly aircraft are. In this scenario, it's possible that they detected an aircraft, had no way of knowing it was passenger so they assumed it was enemy, and fired.
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They thought it was a troop transport. In the previous weeks they had shot down another troop transport as well as 2 or 3 fighters. The rebels were pretty good at shooting down Ukraine's airplanes and choppers. When they shot it down, the acting General of the rebels posted on their official Twitter account bragging about shooting down a Ukraine troop transport and gave the specific location of the wreckage.
As soon as they discovered it was a civilian airliner they deleted the Twitter post and Russia went on a non stop propaganda spree blaming Ukraine and having the rebels keep everyone out of the wreckage area.
With in a week Russia removed the acting General from his position and replaced him with a new guy..
It's a simple fact, the rebels shot it down by mistake, it's a war crime and Russia supplied the equipment so they are blame shifting.. The only people who buy the BS Russian story(s) is dumb ass Russians who are brainwashed to hate everything from the West..
Russia's stories have been everything from a Ukraine fighter shot it down, a fighter trying to draw rebel fire, Ukraine shooting it with a buk and the dumbest of all dumb, claiming it was the missing Asian airliner filled with dead bodies attempting to frame them..
Russians are just stupid fucks it's pretty clear if they have to keep changing their stories then they are the ones lying. It's pretty clear by this point Russians are too dumb to have democracy their only hope is dictatorship and potato lines..