Originally Posted by
flt001
A sobering "Oversimplification of a "continuous-rod"
warhead expansion in progress".
Continuous rods are nasty, but great for conspiracies, because they may leave no evidence other than a clean cut - so if you can just find one nice clean break/cut on your wreckage, your conspiracy theory is good to go.
In this case, however, I think the BUK (which is old USSR kit) only has HE+frag warheads. In fact I am not sure USSR ever got continuous-rod warheads on anything. I know that they are tricky to get right and tightly export controlled (or at least used to be) - some kit had an "export spec" where CR warhead would be downgraded to fragmentation.
Note: any knowledge I have is from a long time ago, and things may have changed.