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A defence expert has told the BBC that shooting down a plane at 10,000m (9.7 miles) would have required a long- range surface-to-air missile - possibly guided by radar.

 

Like, seriously? Are there any long range SAMs that aren't radar guided? Where does the BBC go to find these "experts"?

 

Any survivors?

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Like, seriously? Are there any long range SAMs that aren't radar guided? Where does the BBC go to find these "experts"?

 

Any survivors?

 

No survivors by the sounds of it, as for the experts god knows.

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Like, seriously? Are there any long range SAMs that aren't radar guided? Where does the BBC go to find these "experts"?

 

Any survivors?

And what does it define as 'long range'? A Buk-M2 is hardly long range on an S-200 scale but will comfortably hit an airliner at 10,000m.

 

Is it normal to fly over war zones?

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And what does it define as 'long range'? A Buk-M2 is hardly long range on an S-200 scale but will comfortably hit an airliner at 10,000m.

 

Is it normal to fly over war zones?

 

Probably long range compared to the MANPADS you'd expect guerillas to have.

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If they say that a long range SAM is "possibly guided by radar" I wouldn't be surprised if their definition of a long range SAM system is "does it reach the other end of this room?".

 

Crying out loud, even a short range SA-3 could've taken down that airliner. I seriously don't understand how such a large, world wide news company as the BBC can't get above amateur knowledge on e.g. military technology, but still insists on reporting on it.

 

Nvm, just saw it in the article.

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If they say that a long range SAM is "possibly guided by radar" I wouldn't be surprised if their definition of a long range SAM system is "does it reach the other end of this room?".

 

Crying out loud, even a short range SA-3 could've taken down that airliner. I seriously don't understand how such a large, world wide news company as the BBC can't get above amateur knowledge on e.g. military technology, but still insists on reporting on it.

 

 

Any word on how many people were on board?

 

295, 280 passengers and 15 crew.

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Like, seriously? Are there any long range SAMs that aren't radar guided? Where does the BBC go to find these "experts"?

 

Any survivors?

I think they try to explain it to the common people that have squat idea of a SAM :music_whistling:

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And what does it define as 'long range'? A Buk-M2 is hardly long range on an S-200 scale but will comfortably hit an airliner at 10,000m.

 

Is it normal to fly over war zones?

 

 

I can absolutly not understand how they let airliners fly over war zones, this kind of denial pisses me off. Allways someone has to die before they act....

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I think they try to explain it to the common people that have squat idea of a SAM :music_whistling:

 

Yeah, but when they say that an "expert" said that it was "possibly radar guided" it's different. I mean, if they were just trying to tell Joe Average who believes there are other things to life than knowing the range of SA-# system (I pity the fool :P), I reckon they'd just have written something along the lines of "long range radar guided", as opposed to the silly thing they actually wrote.

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If they say that a long range SAM is "possibly guided by radar" I wouldn't be surprised if their definition of a long range SAM system is "does it reach the other end of this room?".

 

Crying out loud, even a short range SA-3 could've taken down that airliner. I seriously don't understand how such a large, world wide news company as the BBC can't get above amateur knowledge on e.g. military technology, but still insists on reporting on it.

 

Nvm, just saw it in the article.

Would you believe me if I told you I'd just watched the report on the BBC and it was actually an IHS Jane's analyst who said it?

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All these talks about it being shot down are pretty premature IMO, unless someone has the missile flying and hitting the aircraft recorded on video we wouldn't know until an official investigation is conducted. Btw did anyone read anything on the pilots contacting air traffic control? That might give a clue as to what happened in the last seconds.

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One of the separatist leader, Strelkov, was publicly stating, that they have shot down a plane

http://std3.ru/ef/41/1405610146-ef41d7464b30da37118c8bf6c86d11e6.png

That was around the time the Malaysian plane dissapeared.

 

Also there are reports that bodies are scattered in area around 15km from the crash site, which suggest that the plane atleast partialy disintegrated in-flight.

 

edit: translation

"We just shot down An-26 (note:ukrainian transport plane used by military) near the city of Torez, the debris is lying somewhere close to the coal-mine "Progress. " We have warned before not to fly in "our sky." And here is the video confirmation that "the rain of dead birds" continues. The plane fell behind a spoil tip, the residential sector is not caught. Civilians are not injured.

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To my mind, regardless of what happened, the only ones to blame are Malaysian Airlines for flying over an active war zone where planes were being shot down, and a fairly similar aircraft had been shot down at >21,000ft just a few days prior.

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One of the separatist leader, Strelkov, was publicly stating, that they have shot down a plane

http://std3.ru/ef/41/1405610146-ef41d7464b30da37118c8bf6c86d11e6.png

That was around the time the Malaysian plane dissapeared.

 

Also there are reports that bodies are scattered in area around 15km from the crash site, which suggest that the plane atleast partialy disintegrated in-flight.

 

edit: translation

"We just shot down An-26 (note:ukrainian transport plane used by military) near the city of Torez, the debris is lying somewhere close to the coal-mine "Progress. " We have warned before not to fly in "our sky." And here is the video confirmation that "the rain of dead birds" continues. The plane fell behind a spoil tip, the residential sector is not caught. Civilians are not injured.

 

 

Right, they thinking it was An-26 (like yesterday) and they have a russian BUK system.

 

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Please change the name of the topic, the aircraft was shot down! Jesus Christ!

 

Separatists boasted that shot down the An-26 and really they came in a Boeing 777!

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Would you believe me if I told you I'd just watched the report on the BBC and it was actually an IHS Jane's analyst who said it?

 

Link? I just saw a clip with some analyst from that place being interviewed by the BBC, and he didn't say anything dumb along the lines of how a long range SAM system "might have been radar guided".

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I just read this. Unbelievable.

RIP :(

 

EDIT:

I guess the experts use the old rule of thumb classification (which actually works in most cases) for their statements:

- "short range": Manpads. Everything above 10,000ft is quite safe.

- "medium range": bigger IR SAMs like strela. Above 20,000ft you're safe if you are not damn slow.

- "long range" everything above, mostly Radar SAMs like SA-6, Sa-10. Reaches "far" and "high".

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