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Originally Posted by blankall
Watched the video. It's a little bit hard to see what's going on. But the first missile misses? and then they shoot another one about 30 seconds after the first?
Obviously, the distances look smaller from our view, but they aren't shooting from that far away. Surely, they'd be able to get enough of a visual to distinguish between a jumbo jet and a cruise missile. You'd assume the speeds would be totally different.
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In the stories out there the plane was hit by the first missile and the transponder at that point was destroyed.
A airliner travels at a quarter the speed of a cruise missile and the airline was gaining altitude, cruise missiles don't really do that they try to fly low under radar coverage.
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