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Russia says it has evidence US Patriot missiles downed its military transport plane
Reuters ^ | February 1, 2024 | Guy Faulconbridge

Posted on 02/03/2024 1:24:23 PM PST by Navy Patriot

MOSCOW, Feb 1 (Reuters) - Russian investigators said on Thursday they had evidence showing that Ukraine's military shot down a Russian Il-76 military transport plane last week with U.S.-made Patriot surface-to-air missiles.

Among the fragments were serial numbers with English acronyms, including "CONFIDENTIAL classified by PATRIOT SECURITY CLASSIFICATION GUIDE DATED: 9/22/83 ADDENDUM DATED 11/28/83 8/8/84 CONTRACT NO/DAAH01-86C-A018'," the committee said in a statement.

"The fragments seized from the scene, according to their design features, geometric characteristics and available markings, are structural elements of the MIM-104A anti-aircraft guided missile of the Patriot complex of the United States, developed by Raytheon and Hughes corporations and manufactured by Raytheon," the committee said.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ukraine
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To: marcusmaximus

THANKS for posting the pictures of Tucker. He’s my FAVORITE journalist and he looks GREAT there!


41 posted on 02/03/2024 2:23:36 PM PST by BobL (Trump gets my vote, even if I have to write him in; Millions of others will do the same)
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To: Thank You Rush; BobL
Puzzling to me. Don’t we furnish Ukraine with weapons? What is so peculiar about using them?

You missed the part about not using them in Russian Federation territory, TYR.

This makes it less problematic to attack airfields in NATO countries when the Ukies and their NAFO pals start rolling the F-16s off NATO airbases, because the airbases in the Ukraine are unsuitable for the F-16s.

Get yourself up to speed, TYR.

42 posted on 02/03/2024 2:26:55 PM PST by kiryandil (Free Zaluzhny!)
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To: Navy Patriot

I’m sure the US wouldn’t mind if Russia sent some S-500 missile systems to Yemen, Syria and Iran to even things out.


43 posted on 02/03/2024 2:27:11 PM PST by Karl Spooner
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To: BobL; marcusmaximus

The Tucker is marcus's Daddy.

44 posted on 02/03/2024 2:28:18 PM PST by kiryandil (Free Zaluzhny!)
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To: Karl Spooner
In the News/Activism forum, on a thread titled Russia says it has evidence US Patriot missiles downed its military transport plane, Karl Spooner wrote: I’m sure the US wouldn’t mind if Russia sent some S-500 missile systems to Yemen, Syria and Iran to even things out.

Queen Vicky and her neocon pals are dancing right on the line to a few Russians showing up with some hypersonic missile batteries for their Houthi allies...

45 posted on 02/03/2024 2:29:54 PM PST by kiryandil (Free Zaluzhny!)
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To: Da Coyote

Yeah, right.
Who ya gonna believe, physical evidence or the USG deepState narrative?


46 posted on 02/03/2024 2:30:24 PM PST by A strike (Words can have gender, humans cannot.)
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To: BobL

47 posted on 02/03/2024 2:32:00 PM PST by marcusmaximus
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

You’re squeezing on the wrong end of Occam’s razor, the Uke Nazi blood tells you that.


48 posted on 02/03/2024 2:33:19 PM PST by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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To: cpdiii

Idealistic/not truly reality based expectation/”thinking”.


49 posted on 02/03/2024 2:34:44 PM PST by A strike (Words can have gender, humans cannot.)
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To: Navy Patriot

More Moscovian disinformation.

There were only 3 bodies found and the plane was headed north, not west toward Ukraine. As for the missile - good shot!


50 posted on 02/03/2024 2:36:16 PM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: janetjanet998

Your ‘point’?


51 posted on 02/03/2024 2:36:49 PM PST by A strike (Words can have gender, humans cannot.)
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To: PAR35

But its not the same system - only the name is the same. So many changes that they are impossible to list.


52 posted on 02/03/2024 2:40:24 PM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: Karl Spooner
I don't believe the Russians will send S-500's to the Mideast.

It's not necessary, and they want Diplomatic solutions.

53 posted on 02/03/2024 2:41:54 PM PST by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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To: Vermont Lt

Yes, indeed. But if true, it would put to rest comments that the Russians shot down their own plane, wouldn’t it.


54 posted on 02/03/2024 2:43:11 PM PST by Gaffer
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To: Navy Patriot

Ruh Roh!


55 posted on 02/03/2024 2:43:46 PM PST by McGruff (Don't underestimate Joe's ability to f*** things up - Barack Obama)
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To: PIF

“There were only 3 bodies found and the plane was headed north, not west toward Ukraine”

Please provide a link to your claim.


56 posted on 02/03/2024 2:47:04 PM PST by McGruff (Don't underestimate Joe's ability to f*** things up - Barack Obama)
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To: kiryandil
I call her the Angel of Darkness. Trump calls her a "warmonger"

Trump accuses 'war mongers' in US State Department for 2014 Ukraine coup

57 posted on 02/03/2024 2:48:53 PM PST by Karl Spooner
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To: PIF
Speak to Rooters about that, they've got it in their heads that it's a Uke Nazi screw up.

I don't care, it's just getting closer to The Last Ukrainian Alive.

Will the Russkies ship him home via air transport, while hinting that Putin will be aboard?

I can see that Uke now, kissing his rear goodbye.

58 posted on 02/03/2024 2:50:50 PM PST by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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To: MeganC

I like Sky News with Rita Panahi. She’s originally from Pine Bluff, Ak.

The most bizarre yet telling tv news was that yammering, rapid fire and sometimes sobbing North Korean woman.

Was she weird.


59 posted on 02/03/2024 2:51:00 PM PST by jmacusa (Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots.)
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To: MeganC

“I recommend watching foreign news. You get to hear things about America you’ll never hear in our media. There’s also much better coverage of world events.”

“The most insidious power the media has, is the power to ignore.” — Chris Plante, WMAL, DC.


60 posted on 02/03/2024 3:04:46 PM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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