[edpc]

Wrong. They believed they were shooting at an SU-25. The radar signature isn’t close and the Frogfoot is incapable of reaching the altitude at which the airline was traveling. The fault is squarely on the operators of the BUK system.

[Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America]

BUK system operators 100% responsible.

[Mount Athos]

"They believed they were shooting at an SU-25. The radar signature isn’t close and the Frogfoot is incapable of reaching the altitude at which the airline was traveling."

Hi edpc. How did you convince yourself that you know what they believed they were shooting at? Very strange.

What you are saying doesn't make any sense when military cargo planes had been shot down at the same timeframe and place.

1 month before MH17, an Ilyushin Il-76 military cargo plane was shot down in the warzone. This is many times the size of a fighter jet and flies as high as conventional airliners. The wingspan is 165 feet, compared with 197 feet for a 747 or 48 feet for an su-25.

Here is what it looks like:



and 3 days before MH17 a AN-26 military cargo plane was also shot down at 21,000 feet, also many times bigger than a fighter though it doesn't fly very high.

The US military accidentally shot down a passenger plane in 1988, while Ukraine accidentally shot down a passenger plane in 2001.