Many of these separatists have been previously identified as Spetznas personnel. It's my feeling a great deal of them are Russian regulars operating with more than just tacit approval.
Many of these separatists have been previously identified as Spetznas personnel. It’s my feeling a great deal of them are Russian regulars operating with more than just tacit approval.
Early today Ukraine reported capturing some Russian regular troops w/o insignia. So called Green Men. Obviously that news got blown over by the airliner shoot down. We’ll hear more about that later.
“The Vincennes personnel had the same IFF info.”
Reports at the time indicated the Iranian civilian airliner failed to use the transponder signals which indicated a civilian aircraft, which gave the USS Vincennes too little time to take alternative actions to defend against a hostile Iranian aircraft targeting the naval task force defended by the USS Vincennes.
In this case, Flight MH17 should have had a properly working transponder identifying it as a neutral civilian airliner, and the SAM launcher should have seen this civilian transponder code displayed on its targeting radar system. So, either the transponder and/or the targeting radar failed to function properly, or the SAM launcher attacked the aircraft despite the transponder identifying the aircraft as a neutral civilian airliner. My guess is the SAM launchers shot down the aircraft by wrongly assuming it was a Ukrainian military transport aircraft using a civilian transponder code.