Malaysian Airlines MH317

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Originally Posted by Oberon

A video of the Dutch Safety Boards investigation into the loss of MH17:


The Dutch investigation into identifying who fired the missile is still ongoing.

This video here:

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Long story cut short, Almaz-Antey claim that:
- the weapon use was the old 9M38 round, no longer in service due to the end of life for the round (25 years, last missile made in 1986), the missiles in Russian inventory were dismantled, the fate of Ukrainian rounds is not known to Almaz-Antey, though the Ukrainian side did initiate negotiations in 2005 to prolongate the life of the 9M38 missiles in it's inventory.
- the missile approach direction was from the side, rather than from the front of the aircraft (due to the way fragments penetrated the internal bulkheads and how the left engine was dammaged), thus the probable launch area was different to the one originally claimed (snezhnoe).
- Almaz-Antey has conducted full sized experiments with both the warhead and the representative missile, to prove that their version (with a different missile approach vector) was correct and that the Dutch version was incorrect.