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Originally Posted by nik-
Or they just ####ed up. I mean that's more likely than turning to old equipment to counter the most advanced air force in the world because they were worried about their new gear getting broken.
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The Tor M1 if that's what was used in this case while not the most advanced anti-aircraft weapon out there still has a lot of features that would prevent something like this would happen.
If I was going to theorize the battery commander ignored whatever the operator said in terms of the contact report or even the transponder code on his screen and made a snap decision to fire, into a civilian air corridor against a plane that was gaining altitude which isn't really matching any kind of attack profile out there unless its something like a lob shot, and that would not look like a civilian aircraft's altitude gain.
This is why I'm saying that Canada should be extremely demanding in getting answers, the Canadian Government and the Iranian Government owe that to the victims.
I expect that the Iranian's are taking a hammer and flame throwers to the Black Boxes as we sit here talking about it. But at this point it sounds like they're pretty sure that this was a shoot down, so I'm not sure that the black box is relevant.
Expect the Iranian's to scape goat and shoot some poor private or Lt to try to make everyone happy.