DUABI, Jan 10 — Canada said yesterday that a surface-to-air missile brought down a Ukrainian airliner in Tehran, while the Ukrainian government said it was investigating reports of debris from a Russian-made Tor-M1 missile. The Tor, also called the SA-15 Gauntlet by Nato, is a short-range...
Friday, 10 Jan 2020 12:45 PM MYTDUABI, Jan 10 — Canada said yesterday that a surface-to-air missile brought down a Ukrainian airliner in Tehran, while the Ukrainian government said it was investigating reports of debris from a Russian-made Tor-M1 missile.
Military aircraft and cruise missiles — which the Tor system is designed to destroy — typically plot their courses to avoid being spotted on radar. They are equipped with systems such as chaff, which confuses radar, and flares, which act as decoys for heat-seeking missiles. “They probably wouldn't have even seen it coming,” Duitsman said. “Right after takeoff, the pilots were probably preoccupied with other things.”
All of those aircraft would have been visible on the radar screen of the Tor battery as well as civilian radar at the airport.A former European air defence officer, who now works on missile defence technology, said that ideally, flight plans and transponder codes of all scheduled civilian flights would be shared with military units stationed near an airport.
They have a small warhead — about 15 kg of high explosive — but are designed to spray fragments of shredded metal, like bullets, into a target upon detonation.
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