LOCKMART@sh.itjust.works to NonCredibleDefense@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 2 days agoIf I had a nickel for every time a Russian SAM shot down a civilian airliner.....sh.itjust.worksimagemessage-square38fedilinkarrow-up1391arrow-down15 cross-posted to: noncredibledefense@lemmy.world
arrow-up1386arrow-down1imageIf I had a nickel for every time a Russian SAM shot down a civilian airliner.....sh.itjust.worksLOCKMART@sh.itjust.works to NonCredibleDefense@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square38fedilink cross-posted to: noncredibledefense@lemmy.world
minus-squareJustAnotherKay@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down6·edit-21 day agoThose are not the markings that a Surface-to-Air-Missile leaves on a plane. I’d reckon those look more like bullet holes ETA: I know less than I thought. My bad
minus-squareStrykker@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·1 day agoSurface to air missiles use various forms of shrapnel depending on the missile, this is basically 100% a SAM. This also looks very similar to the damage from the other airliner Russia shot down a few years ago with one of their mobile Sam units.
minus-squareskillissuerMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 day agohttps://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/azerbaijan-airlines-flight-was-downed-by-russian-air-defence-system-four-sources-2024-12-26/
Those are not the markings that a Surface-to-Air-Missile leaves on a plane. I’d reckon those look more like bullet holes
ETA: I know less than I thought. My bad
Surface to air missiles use various forms of shrapnel depending on the missile, this is basically 100% a SAM. This also looks very similar to the damage from the other airliner Russia shot down a few years ago with one of their mobile Sam units.
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/azerbaijan-airlines-flight-was-downed-by-russian-air-defence-system-four-sources-2024-12-26/