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So it wasn't a MANPADS. Who said it was? People want to claim it was because that's what they are familiar with, but the Iranian military have access to surface to air missiles with much greater range and altitude than a MANPADS.

Which also require a much larger boat and a separate fire control system than the 'fast boat' some say they saw that night could accommodate.

There were no Iranian frigates operating in those waters that night. There were no Iranian container ships, either.

Which also require a much larger boat and a separate fire control system than the 'fast boat' some say they saw that night could accommodate.

Speculation. We don't know that a "fast boat" was used. Supposing it was. Perhaps it had towed a sacrificial launch boat behind it?

Perhaps it was a small fishing boat?

All I know is that if you paid me enough money to do this, and I had no compunction about doing something like this, I would figure out a way to do it.

What I have been told is that a Wealthy Iranian family hired former Republican Guard soldiers who had become mercenaries to shoot down an American aircraft to avenge the deaths of some of their family members who were killed when Iran Air flight 655 was shot down by the USS Vincennes.

There were more details given to me, but this was around 2009, so those details have faded over time.