WIth the satellite imagery they will be able to determine if they knew it wa a passenger plane or not.
What I have been trying to explain. Again I am visual!
It is related to why I think it was a bunch of idiots with minimal training who messed up .
Its a three component system. As you will see they are reasonably big - therefore sateliite stuff should be able to show if there was one peice of the system at launch location, two pieces, or three pieces,
If all three were there then they knew it was passenger plane. IF two there they could make a mistake.If one same!
There are two ohter parts but ... not important in terms of this idea!
Its like a stero system HA!
Part one:
A standard Buk battalion consists of a command vehicle, target acquisition radar (TAR), six
Part two:
part two above
target acquisition radar (TAR)
he 9K37 utilises the 9S18 Tube Arm or 9S18M1 (which carries the NATO reporting name Snow Drift) (Russian: СОЦ 9C18 Купол; English: dome) target acquisition radar in combination with the 9S35 or 9S35M1 Fire Dome H/I band tracking and engagement radar which is mounted on each TELAR. The Snow Drift target acquisition radar has a maximum detection range of 85 km (53 miles) and can detect an aircraft flying at 100 m (330 ft) from 35 km (22 mi) away and even lower flying targets at ranges of around 1020 km (6-12 mi).
Part three:
Command Vehicle Basically number 2 and 3 of the set : This thing can connect to basically like air traffic control radar, ( much more sopshisticated radar off site) which would show, MAL 0017, 33000 feet -- just like a radar in air traffic control tower . SO with the set they would KNOW who was above them would they have specific info indicating it is a passenger plane.
the basic stuff has basically like "close" baby radar (could not think of another phrase!!) It can like say yea there is some plane up there fire if ya want!! BUt they do not have to do anything but push the buttom, casue the missle just chases heat. Fire and watch for the boom.
If there are more than two heat sources its, pardon pun, hit one or the other but its kinda like the missles choice if that makes sense. Just depends on which heat source it "grabs" and kaboom.
It also does not hit its target. It blows up when it gets close and the debris from that explosion is what destroys the target. There not that smart --- they get closeby and explode they do not strike!
The collection!:
Neat video of inside it (ps: its not new weapon trials took place between 1977 and 1979.)
Inside of it (we all have seen outside!) starts at 00:40 Look at the stuff its old!
http://tanknutdave.com/the-russian-9k37-buk-series-of-self-propelled-sam-systems/
The missles are not sophistacted - like the Israel targeted missles that can totally think. Israels stuff is amazing, just amazing! prob better than ours!
lots of folks have em:
- Azerbaijan[SUP][54][/SUP]
- Bulgaria Buk M2 4 Devisions based in Plovdiv for AirDefence
- Belarus 12 batteries[SUP][55][/SUP]
- Egypt Buk-M1 version[SUP][56][/SUP]
- Finland 3 batteries (18 firing units) to be replaced[SUP][55][/SUP]
- Georgia[SUP][57][/SUP]
- India[SUP][58][/SUP]
- North Korea[SUP][59][/SUP]
- People's Republic of China[SUP][60][/SUP] Improved variant as the HQ-16, a navalized VLS system. Joint People's Republic of China/Russian project to upgrade the naval 9K37M1-2 system 'Shtil' (SA-N-12).
- Russia more than 350 9К37 and 9К317, as of 2012[SUP][61][/SUP] primary builder and constructor. Replacement of complexes 9К37 on the new options 9К317 [SUP][62][/SUP] is planned, that by 2020 will be replaced by 70% complexes or more.[SUP][63][/SUP][SUP][64][/SUP]
- Syria[SUP][65][/SUP][SUP][dead link][/SUP] 8 complexes 9К317Э "Buk-M2E delivered from Russian Federation in 2011 (Stockholm International Peace Research Institute Arms Transfers Database)Land Forces + 10/8[SUP][66][/SUP] Buk-M2E Air Defence.[SUP][67][/SUP] + 20 Buk-M1-2 [SUP][68][/SUP]
- Ukraine [SUP][69][/SUP]
- Vietnam - 06 Buk-M2E system (on order)[SUP][when?][/SUP][SUP][citation needed][/SUP]
- Venezuela Buk-M2EK Received[SUP][74][/SUP] (20 ordered).[SUP][75][/SUP]
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