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Malaysian airliner crashes in Ukraine, near Russian border


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Fucked up shit,

Saying its the ukranian sepratists.

How the fuck have they got surface to air capabilities that can take a jet down at 6miles

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f*cked up sh*t,

Saying its the ukranian sepratists.

How the f*ck have they got surface to air capabilities that can take a jet down at 6miles

 

weird, i was only readin this the other day

 

bearin in mind this is from russia's media

 

rt seems to be down atm

 

 

Highly dangerous type of weaponry – man-portable air defense systems (MANPADs) – have gone missing from two Ukrainian military units, according to a high-ranking official in Kiev.

Several, and maybe even several dozen 9K38 Igla (Needle) air defense systems (SA-18 Grouse in NATO’s classification) have been stolen, a Ukrainian military official, who wished to remain anonymous, told RIA Novosti.

The shortage was, according to him, registered in Ukraine’s 80th airmobile regiment, which had 54 MANPADs, and the 27th airmobile brigade, stationed 45 km away from Lvov, which possessed 90 Iglas.

The new leadership of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry is, according to the RIA source, taking measures to “camouflage the grave situation” by adding old and experimental items of the weapon to the stockpile.

The Igla MANPADs are designed to strike down low-flying targets. Their distribution is regulated by a number of international agreements since it’s highly undesirable that this type of weapon gets into the hands of terrorists. Russia and the US have an agreement on MANPADs’ distribution.

A large number of such weaponry was reported stolen from a military base in Benghazi, Libya in 2012, following the coup, which saw Muammar Gaddafi overthrown and killed.

There later appeared reports that Libyan MANPADs could have been obtained by insurgents, fighting against Assad in Syria.

 

http://rt.com/news/air-defense-missile-systems-626/

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Dont think a portable one would be capable of this

Theyre saying its a russian made BUK STA missile

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interesting though, first time ive seen the true aftermath of a plane crash, quite a few bodies still intact im surprised 

 

 

said something on sky about  them BUK rockets they used are so dated they wouldn't actually do much damage to the plane  at that altitude as a whole but just enough to bring it down

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Fuck man. I'm shook. Got a Malaysian airlines flight in a couple of months.

To be honest yoy shouldn't be flying over a conflict zone ever. They best change their flight path coming out of this. It's fucked and might not have been predicted but now they know better what the dangers are. I've always thought that jets need to have air defence systems like they do on AF1

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