Posted on 11/03/2015 4:03:32 AM PST by Reaganite Republican
Probably the reason the Creep Obama is sending specdial forces to Syria.
***PING***
(Do I HAF'ta' ?)
Do Stingers, or any other MANPAD have the range to reach up to 31,000 feet?
Only to those with the IQ of a peanut. Ivan’s track record is pretty low after Ukraine.
As FReeper Harley lady insightfully posted earlier WRT the State Dept's gun-running:
When Putin finds the arms that were sent from Venezuela to Benghazi to Syria to overthrow Assad, Putin should go to the Hague and demand they bring action against the Government of the United States...including every House and Senator and government official that was involved in this...
(And that goes for Obama and Hillary, as well.)
I couldn’t agree more, but the “Americans destroyed the ME and I’m here to save you all from that” message re. Russians in Syria would be greatly aided by such a development
Like if we gave Germany the U-boat used to sink the Lusitania.
No.
General Dynamics / Raytheon FIM-92 Stinger Man-Portable, Air Defense Missile System
12,500ft max altitude (second paragraph above "Stinger Uses")
I know Stinger FIM92 does high twenties
Must have been an electrical short in the fuel tank.... like on TWA Flight 800.... you know....
The same intelligence report disclosing the observation of a flash of heat also said there was no heat trail that indicates the presence of a surface-to-air missile. The absence of a surface-to-air missile heat trail and the absence of the characteristic shrapnel pattern on the fuselage rules out a surface-to-air missile or any other type of missile as the cause of the aircraft’s disintegration. Whatever caused the aircraft to crash, it could not have been a missile.
What a Putin Propaganda Bonanza if ISIS Took That Plane Down with any American involvement whatsoever...
Another possibility:
“...SA-8 GECKO was used to down a cargo plane around Damascus by Syrian rebels last year which is highly mobile and has the range of 40,000 feet, well within distance of the reported height (36,000 ft).
http://therightscoop.com/heres-how-isis-could-have-shot-down-that-russian-airliner/
Something like this could have come from the US side, via the CIA Benghazi weapons bazaar... who knows what they were up to. And the Americans let a lot of Russian stuff go from Ghaddafi’s armory to the Islamists too... that’s on our, France, and UK’s hands.
That fact that somebody videotaped the plane exploding and going down says a great deal. They obviously knew it was going to get hit.
“I know Stinger FIM92 does high twenties”
The maximum altitude is only achievable from immediately below the target. Any launch point not immediately below the target adds to the distance to the target and reduces the maximum altitude the missile can achieve. The Stinger’s war head uses shrapnel to destroy the target. We have seen news photographs of the pieces of the aircraft. If the aircraft had been disintegrated by a missile strike, the pieces we see and the wreckage examined by the investigators would have unmistakable evidence of shrapnel holes and pieces of embedded shrapnel from the missile’s warhead. The absence of the shrapnel excludes missiles of all types as the cause of the disintegration of the Airbus.
Creepy video. What’s with the music?
Still could have been a bomb.
That’s the first thing I thought- but they need to get a real camera, I thought they were rich
PS- GO BUCKS
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