I am probably more easily tricked by this tactic, I converse with too many people that butcher the English language (including me). Basic naïveté or stupidity can often seem like simply mistakenly choosing the wrong word or expediently trying to convey a point with basic cliche phrases.

yeah, I realized that a little too late.

You got me, I should not have bit...

It is always quite humorous to read comments like yours, just goes to show how quickly we as a people forget the lessons of history. We are like hamsters on wheel, destined to repeat the same old mistakes over and over.

The current load out is to counter HEAT rounds, Trophy as it stands is not really designed for Kinetic Penetrators like SABOT... It is designed as a protection system against ground based hostiles armed with ATGM's. A tanks protection against SABOT rounds is its armor and whatever bolted on plates and tools they use.

It depends on the range, Trophy is designed to destroy as far out as is feasible which is not very far out. So the cone is dependent on how far you are from the system, it is a low velocity shot, it starts out tightly packed and separates like any other buckshot as it moves.

I have been fortunate enough to watch Trophy in action during tests and demos... It is a narrow shotgun blast and the path takes it in the same direction as the missile so the person would have been incinerated as well. I saw the unit in 2006 and again in 2009, it has some built in safety measures to detect people…

Did not someone else who did this very same thing on a highway kill someone? Seems like the ticket is well earned and she is lucky she did not kill anyone.

You make my case for me, I have no need of espn, disney, cnn, hallmark channel... Also I did not think that providers like Disney charged per customer? I would rather get my basic network channels for free as usual and pay $4 per channel that I want, that would still save me $105 a month if I just got the channels…

It looks like a xwing or z95 had a child with an arc170

I have a suspicion that if this was confirmed to be Ukraine military or NATO who shot this plane down you would not be saying "Who the fuck cares...".

All countries post anti aircraft systems at their boarders rather than inland, it defeats the purpose of anti air systems to not deploy them to a border either in peace or wartime.

Wait, isn't the SA6 a Kub and the SA11/17 Buk? The difference being is the the Buk can be telar rather than just tel like the Kub. Which means the Buk would have a basic built in radar while the Kub without the radar network would have to have been visually acquired?

What? ESPN is included in basic cable, it is not an extra charge (for us anyway).

Pretty sure this system has a 15olb high explosive fragmenting warhead.

I believe that this version is a telar (transport erector launcher and radar) which gives basic information outside of a sophisticated radar control system. So as a buk plugged into the Ukraine or Russian radar network would see the civilan tag on the airplane the rebels who operated a isolated buk would see the…

HBO costs $10 because it is commercial free, 99% of all channels are subsidized by commercials. You argument makes little sense considering that of the 19 channels Time Warner wanted to charge me for are free over the air.

wait, wut? I said it is possible this was a mistake by Ukraine but based on the planes course it is far more likely either the Russians or affiliated group. This is pretty close to the same location that those forces have downed 3 Ukraine aircraft.

Yes but it is far easier to create fake footage than it is for a 3rd party bring in some portable air defence unit capable of hitting an airliner at 30k feet while making it look like it was another power. Especially in the middle of a warzone with every satellite, radar and air defence unit in the region pointed at…

That aircraft was flying OUT of Iran and towards the Vincennes, the Malaysian flight was heading OUT of Ukraine AWAY from Ukrainian forces. If there was a mistake it is much more likely to be Russian since the aircraft was heading TOWARDS Russia.