[rktman]

At 32K ft? Anybody got a pic of the missile they used. Facsimile of course. Not the actual missile.

[C19fan]

Supposedly a BUK SAM system:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2696344/What-shot-MH17-Soviet-built-BUK-surface-air-missile-launcher-believed-brought-Air-Malaysia-flight-33-000ft.html

[thackney]

Not exactly a shoulder-fired weapon.

[RayChuang88]

The missile used is from the 9K37 Buk battlefield SAM system (NATO code name SA-17 Gadfly), the successor to the 2K12 Kub (NATO code name SA-6 Gainful) that wreaked so much early havoc against the Israeli Air Force early in the Yom Kippur War. The current production version is a very modern SAM system, which has been continually upgraded in recent years.