The air defense battery that shot down the airliner appears to have fired on it from beyond the nominal maximum range of its missiles. It's one of a number of puzzling decisions by the unit, which missed a host of details that would have allowed them to determine the plane wasn't a threat.
Share to linkedin... [+]When Iran admitted Saturday that its military shot down a Ukrainian airliner, killing 176, a high-ranking officer stated that the plane was misidentified by an air defense battery as a cruise missile. If that’s true, that’s not the end of the soldiers’ poor judgment.
On Tuesday, Iran said it had arrested an undisclosed number of people in connection with the incident. “In the 16 seconds the missile was flying out, the jet might have increased its distance relative to the launcher by a small number of kilometers, so when the missile arrives at that distance, its guidance stops working and it is flying ballistic like a thrown rock,” says Kopp, whose Ph.D. work focused on radar datalink technology and who has published dozens of papers on Russian air defense systems and radars.
Given that the SA-15’s role is generally limited to short-range protection around military targets and the limited resources of the Iranian military with the Iranian economy in crisis, it’s possible that the crew hadn’t received much training on dealing with civilian aircraft, says Bronk. “Priority for in-depth training on airspace deconfliction with air traffic control might have been directed to other units operating longer-range [air defense] systems,” he says, like the S-200 and S-300.
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