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Uncle Peter · 25-05-2018, 13:53

The BUK system is designed to operate with a dedicated target acquisition radar array which can be data linked to several launchers. However, an individual launcher vehicle can also operate autonomously and acquire low-mid altitude targets with an integral back-up radar system.

The crew may well have tried to acquire a low altitude target and missed hopelessly, thus MH17 was in the wrong place at the wrong time and in the upward trajectory of the missile in radar homing mode.

The problem here is getting the Russians to admit that they had and have regular air defence forces operating in the area let alone the fact that they appear to have made one monumental screw-up.

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Uncle Peter 81-82-83-84 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: on holiday by mistake Age: 54 Services: Vivid 200, Full House, V6 x2 Posts: 5,977	Re: MH17 Passenger Jet was shot down by Russia - Dutch Officials say The BUK system is designed to operate with a dedicated target acquisition radar array which can be data linked to several launchers. However, an individual launcher vehicle can also operate autonomously and acquire low-mid altitude targets with an integral back-up radar system. The crew may well have tried to acquire a low altitude target and missed hopelessly, thus MH17 was in the wrong place at the wrong time and in the upward trajectory of the missile in radar homing mode. The problem here is getting the Russians to admit that they had and have regular air defence forces operating in the area let alone the fact that they appear to have made one monumental screw-up.