If it is an air-to-air attack then why they selected the least fitted type of Ukrainian Air forces?
Falling speeed for Su25 is 170 km/h. Much easier show falling debris as barraging Su-25.
MoD now full of loyal but stupid officers which must agree with bloody politic, it all. That started fron 2nd Checnya and continue in 08.08.08.
I see only one fitting scenario which implies that the Russian Buk fires at a military aircraft and missile retargets of which Buk is known as able.
SA-11 cannot retarget from Su-25 to Boeing.
1. Signal (shape, length, reverbations, envelope and videosignal) from both is very different and selection of targets very easy for Argon-15.
2. 9S35M1 very accurate radar so Su-25 must follow Boeing close to 180m and speed varies on 30m/s. Su-25 cannot have so much speed on alt=10000m.
3. Argon-15 dont give to crew ability for change target, commander must choose target on stage Search, then Argon-15 calculate algorithm Meet Zone, then indicate Target in zone, commander open fire it all. Please show me BUTTON
on commander place which can change target.
4. If you know SA-11 then you know what to do 2 soldiers - first and second. They sit on right
from commander and both tune frequency (if enemy use ECM) and control alt/range of target and missile. It impossible for Su-25 or Boeing invade on both screen at same time and on same level.
5. Missile seeker after first 2.6 seconds of flight look only on target - it how proportional navigation work, and on-board computer of 9E50M1 receive commands from TELAR but compare data from 9S35M1 (relative position of target and firing radar) and data from seeker (relative position of target and missile) for calculate correction signals to missile. If angle of view TELAR on Boeing on range 30km change with time on a few degree, at same time missile have NO CHANGE angle of view. So impossible for another target take a place of Su-25 by Boeing in both systems of measure - TELAR and seeker.
All who whine about "targeting Su-25 but hit Boeing" are idiots and liers.