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When a missle is fired from a ship, it is tracked by radar. Flight 800 would also be tracked by radar. The Navy would know if they shot it down or not. The firing ship would know and so would the other ships near by monitoring the exercise. There is no way that could be covered up. They would have also had a visual on the explosion of the shoot down if that happened.

If there was a missle it would have to have been rather large for a surface launch. However it is not difficult at all to rig a SA7 where you can fire it from another aircraft. All you have to do is mount it under a wing and then extend the wires that gives you a lock on tone to the cockpit along with the firing wire. This is VERY simple to do.

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However it is not difficult at all to rig a SA7 where you can fire it from another aircraft. All you have to do is mount it under a wing and then extend the wires that gives you a lock on tone to the cockpit along with the firing wire. This is VERY simple to do.

You're right ! Look no further than mounting Stingers on OH58Ds. Add to this , certain aircraft have fairly small radar signatures and if shadowing a B747 ,it's easy to not even see it. You and I both know that jettisoning the launchers would be fairly easy as well . What most people don't realize is tha tthe warhead for any kind of SAM ,or any other anti air missile ,does not have to be all that large, either.