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Originally Posted by Bjorn_Tasty1
The russian did it, or maybe they gave the system to the rebels
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The problem is that there was no system. It was one rogue unit. Once again: just try to imagine the US aircraft carrier without its support battle group. The same applies to BUK, S-300 and other systems. One unit scans and tracks; one unit loads; one unit fires to cover up the group, one fires at air targets etc (4 units is an
operational minimum for old models and 5 for the new ones). According to the Netherland "experts" there was just one unit, which is literally blind, can not be reloaded etc. The Russian army may be stupid, but not that much.
P.S. I don't want to say there is no Russian army/mercenaries on Donbass, but they will not use BUK like this. Will you drive a car with one wheel? They won't for sure.
This is the regular BUK
system:
On this picture you can see at least 4 different trucks (only a small part of the loader is shown there). And that's why BUK is called a SYSTEM. The Netherland reports say about only one unit, which probably was stolen by the Ukrainian rebels.