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Pudduhuk
Give the simulator a go and make your own mind up.
Asakaze
Burning Bush
The rebels are not "drunk gorillas". Consumption of alcohol during combat is strictly prohibited in many rebel units. And these guys are really good, they shot down about twenty low-flying Ukrainian Air Force planes and helicopters with portable missile launchers and heavy machine guns and fought to a standstill almost the entire Ukrainian army. No way drunk gorillas could achieve that.
But you're absolutely right, the "Buk" system is a way too sophisticated for them. To effectively operate it a professional crew and several support systems are needed, and only a regular military force can provide all this. And the Ukrainian army had "Buk"-armed units near the crash area, it was fully deployed 156th Air Defence missile regiment. Ukrainian army is the most likely culprit in this ugly story.
FizzBit
Stopped reading after the first sentence. It hasn't even been determined that it was a BUK. Nice try reuters.
bass4funk
US, spy satellites confirmed it was a BUK system, Nice try FizzBit.
FizzBit
LOL. Those same US spy satellites that confirmed WMD in Iraq? Fool me once shame on you...Fool me twice.......well you know the rest.
turbotsat
Only takes 5 minutes to set up the system, and 22 seconds from target acq to launch.
Making it so complex that only an advanced team could do it would tend to bar its usefulness in the field.
Additionally there were reports of a Russian team accompanying the Buk system on its way back over the border with Russia, soon after the shootdown.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buk_missile_system#Description
bass4funk
A BUK system is easier to ascertain and decipher from the space simply based on its size alone. I trust them a lot more than the Mr. Know it all people on JT that have their security clearance. ;-)
bass4funk
And you can empathetically can confirm this, based on....