Canada said on Thursday that a surface-to-air missile brought down a Ukrainian a...
- Canada said on Thursday that a surface-to-air missile brought down a Ukrainian airliner in Tehran, while the Ukrainian government said it was investigating reports of debris from a Russian-made Tor-M1 missile.
It is designed to be mobile and lethal against targets at altitudes up to 6,000 meters and at ranges of 12 km , according to the Federation of American Scientists, which researches and analyses “catastrophic threats to national and international security”. It was unlikely the flight crew had time to react to any missile, said Michael Duitsman, a research associate at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies.
Commercial air flights have transponders - radio transmitters that broadcast their identity, speed and altitude at an internationally agreed frequency. There were several other civilian aircraft nearby when Flight 752 crashed just a few kilometers from the airport. “Shooting down a hostile aircraft is easy,” said the officer, who declined to be identified because of the sensitivity of the issue.Tor missiles are guided by radar and fly at almost three times the speed of sound. That means that if launched at a target 5 km away, they will arrive within about five seconds.
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