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Old 20th Jul 2014, 09:24
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Originally Posted by Capvermell
Isn't there any chance that ATC Radar will have captured the missile's path from launch to impact with its target. Of course as the Ukrainians have not so far come up with anything then perhaps not. No doubt ATC monitoring facilities in that region are still primitive in the extreme..
Actually a primitive ACT system might rather than a modern one that will usually only be working on secondary radar.

There is more chance of Ukrainian military radar seeing the intercept, but whether they recorded the data is something else.

Regarding Russian radar it depends on the distance from the border.

Then considering detection of the SAM radar(s), that is unlikely as a ground-based detection system would need to be within a few miles of the battery. Best bet for detection would be AWACS but the transmission duration would probably be brief.
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