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A video has surfaced that supposedly shows an SA-11 "Buk" SAM system being flat-bedded out of Eastern Ukraine and into Russia. Regardless of its destination, what's interesting is that two of its missiles are missing.
It is entirely common to fire two missiles in quick succession at a single target to improve the probability of a kill, and we also know that an AN-26 was shot down earlier in the week above shoulder fired missile range. Could this be the offending SA-11 that the US Government, and the world for that matter, is searching for? Did it indeed cross the border between Russia and Ukraine as we had reported as a possibility earlier in the day? We cannot be sure, but the video is extremely interesting to say the least, especially seeing as the mobile SAM is not being driven on the road under its own power as it had been photographed and filmed doing earlier in the week.
When heavy military vehicles need to get somewhere fast they are loaded onto a flat-bed tractor trailer. In this SA-11's case, there are many very important reasons for pro-Russian Rebels, or the Russians themselves, to dispose of this vehicle as quickly as possible.
http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/is-this-sa-11-buk-sam-missing-2-missiles-the-one-that-1607521886
Jeneral2885
(1,354 posts)on globalsecurity.org or fas.org or pick up a Dale Brown or Tom Clancy book.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)dipsydoodle
(42,239 posts)of which 26 remain in Ukraine's hands - separatists stole the other one. The ones which were moved recently to the east were those Kiev purchased in the past from Russia. Yes by all means drone the whole fucking lot.
FreakinDJ
(17,644 posts)dipsydoodle
(42,239 posts)and Russia is claiming possession of the radar signature of the actual launcher which fired the missile.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)LiberalArkie
(15,703 posts)Only the launcher was moved in and out of the Ukraine.
If I remember correctly on the audio of the Ukrainian talking to the Russia officer, the Ukrainian seemed a little upset with it being a civilian airliner and the russian seemed to be wanting to CYA.