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Video Apparently Showing Flight 572 Missile Strike Geolocated to Iranian Suburb
- mdaniel 7y agoI don't recognize that site's domain, but the NYTimes seems to have done some confirmation legwork: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/09/video/iran-plane-missile.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/09/video/iran-plane-missile....
- mzs 7y agobellingcat (belling the cat, get it?) does open-source intelligence. Here's their thread regarding the coming NYT piece today: https://twitter.com/bellingcat/status/1215354416951365632 https://twitter.com/bellingcat/status/1215354416951365632 Here's another good article from NYT today focusing on more than just the video: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/09/world/middleeast/iran-plane-crash-ukraine.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/09/world/middleeast/iran-pla...
- duelingjello 7y agoJuan from the Blanco Lirio channel just consolidated the rumors that two (2) Tor (Gen 1) (NATO: SA-15 “Gauntlet”) short-range missiles were probably fired from a battery near the takeoff path based on NATO forces’ SIGINT identifying a lock-on from fire-control radar onto the aircraft and radar tracks of the missiles. It’s interesting how Western sources could identify such signals either from space or hundreds of miles to the south from the Caspian. I guess there is also a possibility of visual/IR sensors seeing the exhaust plume of the solid rocket motor moving quickly at a distance.