Booya?

For God's sake dude, the article is barely a paragraph and a half.

It's a puddlejumper. Max range on of those is about 2000 miles.

Look at a map. Both Algeria and Egypt are currently conducting air strikes in Libya, and there's no targets of any value south of the country. The only "unaccounted" for aircraft are a couple of embraer regional jets, so outside of hitting one of their own cities, there's not a whole lot you can do.

Doesn't even matter if the US has radar, the surrounding countries around Libya have radar, and air defense systems that have been on high alert the entire time. An aircraft that enters their airspace and doesn't identify is going to get blown out of the sky.

Seriously, having seen this story parroted by so many stupid paranoid conservative sites the past 2 weeks or so is just sad. It all basically ties back to a now-debunked news story from an Algerian newspaper.

*blink*

You clearly had to have known he was a morbidly obese, shut in neckbearded pedophile beforehand, why are you angry now?

Big bad state trooper-man doesn't know how to drive a heavy ass RWD vehicle in the snow?

It's a 30 year old vehicle that couldn't pass US standards back then, why in god's name do you think it could in the year of our lord 2015?

They're releasing it in the Japanese market, where it hasn't been available for a while. It's been in constant production in other markets.

It's Southern California dude, they see about a weeks worth of a rain a year, maybe.

I..don't get it. It's not like Comanches were rare or particularly expensive.

The BUK SAM system is very, very good at what it does. It's basically why we created the B2 and F117a aircraft. If these guys aren't russian and were able to acquire it, then it's likely that they have someone that knows how to operate it.

It's a war zone. What exactly are you asking?

Given that the only thing you see in the video is the impact, what exactly are you asking?

I hear an explosion and see a large fireball falling from 7+ miles up, yea, it doesn't take too long to find it in the sky.

Most of these "rebels" are current/ex military. This is also soviet era hardware, we're not exactly talking complex systems.

Yea, Ukraine, a country who's existence at this point is only guaranteed due to opposition from the west to Putin's policies is going to go and shoot down a civilian airliner as "revenge", erasing all good will and turning themselves into a breakfast nook on the black sea for Putin.

I would imagine the plummeting aircraft fireballing out of the sky from 35,000 feet would probably give them a decent idea of where to "point the camera".