Originally Posted by
BVRAAM
Just a bit!
Considering some SAM systems can accurately hit an aircraft from a hundred miles away or more, I wouldn't want to be anywhere near a conflict zone in a defenceless airliner.
According to a post above Iran has the equivalent of S400 with 200 miles reach, but of course some of the same are active in Syria, possibly Turkey nowadays and there are similar US-supplied systems based in Saudi Arabia and of course Israel seems to be well endowed. I don’t know who would want to get near these loaded guns when the operators are feeling nervous. That’s without counting the Russian and US armed forces’ own weapons systems, sea and land based which have been known to down a civilian airliner on occasion.
Ukraine themselves are of course no strangers to own-goal shootdowns, having been on both sides of the equation, which now can also be said of Iran as well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siberi...es_Flight_1812
Personally, I don't understand why everybody seems so trigger happy.
Edmund