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Originally Posted by Richard
S**t can happen when everyone's on edge...even when you have the best equipment, solid C3I, and disciplined forces - look at what happened to the Iran Air Airbus A300. And I suspect C3I is a fluctuating concept along the somewhat nebulous Russian-Ukranian border regions right now.
Richard
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The C3I question is important to weigh when trying to determine who made the decisions to fire on the aircraft. C2 in that environment is probably very centralized, and because of that its hard to imagine that a BUK SAM resource would be managed by 4 brigand separatists. Someone well above the paygrade in that SAM vehicle was probably the person who made the call. The more sophisticated C2 of Russia (or RU supported forward deployed forces) IMHO is more suspect.