Happened. It seems dubious that the Russian Military, in other words, would want to take down a major passenger plane. Certainly with not the intent of taking it down. Again, we simply dont know who brought this down. Im also here with lieu dtenant colonel rick francona. Just in terms of kants, we have not seen separatists heretofor, they have brought down at least one transport plane, but they were not flying at 33,000 feet. Yeah, this would require, as we were talking about, a more sophisticated system. Talking about, you know, hitting it inadvertently, it would be very difficult for that to happen. Generally once youre locked onto the target, it goes to that target. And if it veers off that target and is no longer being guided, they selfdestruct. But when youre targeting a plane at that altitude, are you
clear on exactly what kind of a plane it is . No, its a return on your radar. Right. It will be a certain size, you can estimate the size of the aircraft. You may have other sensors
monitor that area because those nato members feel increasingly threatened because of what s happening. now, they would not be able to pick up this either. people talk about space satellites, the belief that we re monitored by the assets that the u.s. have in the sky, but my understanding is that ballistic missiles are picked up and tracked by that. that s ground to ground. that s a scud or an icbm, something pretty enormous. that s tracked by these satellites. but what i understand is not a surface-to-air missile. so there may be something else out there perhaps in the u.s. military armory which can look at things like this. there may be a radar in play that people aren t overly aware about. but according to these informed sources i ve spoken to, we re pretty sure that the major assets nato have don t have some sort of magic rewind button and look at what happened. the people who do and this is where it s going to get particularly interesting or complicated as the blame game begins