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Originally Posted by fordomatic
 if you think wannabees shot this plane down think again. SAM's are not an easy piece of kit to use and require extensive training, its not like the movies. The range of the one used is also very, very high tech and something that has to have come from Russia, along with the training required to use it.
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By wannabees I mean ex Russian military who may have seen something remotely similar 10 years ago....................
Buk SAM is very complex, so they either half knew what they were doing by locking and firing but not pinging the target or they were completely capable, pinged the target and still didn't care. Considering they have shot down a number of AN-26's recently including one in the same location at the same time they sound like they had just enough training to be dangerous.....