It was a horrendous military blunder-——bovine excretement, those systems know what kind of plane that was. It picks up the signal that tells it what kind of a plane it is.
I’m not convinced it was a blunder. If Putin okayed the shootdown what he gets for it is a demonstration that the USA is simply not a factor in the World any more that has to be taken seriously by people like Putin and the Chinese. I think he did not “order” the incident but he was surely asked for permission. That missile battery was under the control of Russian military personnel. The Russian military is still organized on the same lines that it was in the USSR. It is purely top down. Nothing can happen without being relayed up the chain of command and being approved at the top. There is NO initiative permitted at the lower levels. The separatists would not have been able to use the missile battery without Russian personnel in control. That missile battery can identify an aircraft as to whether it is an airliner or not from the plane’s transponder. The shooters knew that they were targeting an airliner. The Russian in charge must have relayed the info and the request up his chain of command and then acted on or told the separatist crew to act on the approval of the shoot.
Did Ukraine order it's Air Traffic Controllers
to redirect MH-17 to fly over the "war zone" ?
Patsy is at again, and off his meds.
Pat Buchanan has spoken — and the Kremlin applauds.
Reading Putin’s body language in the first press conference, I do not think he gave the order. He could have been asleep like the community-organizer-in-chief when the military took the initiative to get Ben Laden.
However, the ball is in his court and his choice now is what matters.