Originally Posted by
ilesmark
Hi all.
Apols if this has been posted before, but a Kazakh-Russian acquaintance who I've been talking to about this ghastly tragedy has mentioned that a BUK missile is only accurate up to 6000 m if fired from a single launcher, and that to down a plane at 10000 meters needs a whole network of 3-4 stations working.
Is this true?
I have not seen anything of a kind in any SA-11 spec writeups. A single launcher in autonomous mode has a radar with the range of 65-75 km and there's no plausible reason why it should only be accurate to 6 km.
Also keep in mind that it's designed to handle supersonic fighter jets (moving up to mach 2.5) so a 777 would be a very easy target.