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Thales UK secures Indian partner for selling its Starstreak air-defense missile January 14 A Starstreak high velocity missile (HVM) system is manned by members of the British Royal Artillery during a media demonstration at Blackheath in southeast London in 2012. Indias Bharat Dynamics Ltd is set to sell the weapon in India under a cooperation with Thales UK. (Carl Court /AFP/GettyImages) LONDON – The Northern Ireland arm of Thales UK has struck a partnering arrangement with Bharat Dynami...

What happened, is what kind of weapon shot this plane down. was it a shoulder launched anti-aircraft rocket? or was it gun fire from the ground? if it was a shoulder launched anti-aircraft rocket, a so-called man pad which stands for man portable air defense system that would certainly be quite concerning for many people if that was in the hands of some of the militant groups. so thats one of the things that everybodys trying to get to terms with at this point in time. and then, of course, for t...

Traveling above 31,000 feet? the first one we look at is man pads, manned portable air defense systems, shoulder-launched missiles that use i.r. sensors, infrared sensors, and those missiles go after the hottest part of the jet. so that is what the capability that isis, if they had one, would use. they cant go above 20,000 feet. so its pretty clear that it wouldnt be a man pad that brought down that, just as man pads were used by the mujahadin against the soviets in afghanistan and actually help...

Hours. what was your immediate reaction? and youre an expert. >> i found it to be completely understandable. there you have an active war going on. youve got an international airport where planes are coming in to land and take off. as we just saw, you dont need more than 10,000 or 12,000 feet for a man pad to be very effective. i think it was the right thing to do. the insurance liability of flying in there over this ban is simply too great. >> tom fuentes, what did you think? >> i think the sam...

The malaysian plane in ukraine threatening new fears. buck sexton national security editor at the blaze, buck, good to see you. do we need to worry about this, isis getting hands on sophisticated technology? >> yes. weve been worrying about it for a long time. the threat is not as much as what we just saw happened to the malaysian plane. its really more from a man p.a.d., something you can put on your shoulder and shoot pretty easily. >> how high up can that go? >> they can go thousands and thou...

Supposedly near an airfield by another, and then earlier this week, the am-26 was shot out of the air at 26,000, and thats the telling one, and when you reach up to 21,000 feet, you need to really reconsider man pads threat and take into account that maybe this was an sl-11. clearly we have all sorts of satellite imagery and intel abilities to look across the border, and its pen public law sized in the press about equipment, and, you know, russia has fingerprints all over this and they have heav...

The malaysian plane in ukraine threatening new fears. buck sexton national security editor at the blaze, buck, good to see you. do we need to worry about this, isis getting hands on sophisticated technology? >> yes. weve been worrying about it for a long time. the threat is not as much as what we just saw happened to the malaysian plane. its really more from a man p.a.d., something you can put on your shoulder and shoot pretty easily. >> how high up can that go? >> they can go thousands and thou...

Investigation. >> exactly. >> we should all follow his cautions as well. but at this point, there has been very little response from russia to the sanctions other than medvedev today saying that this means ramping up russian defense. vladimir putin does not seem to be at all bothered by the economic actions taken by the united states. >> i dont know, andrea. my response is, i think poroshenko should reach for putin right now and get him on the phone. i dont think this has to be a public conversa...

This was all about. and then youve got to say, why wasnt there any warnings? >> lets bring in rick francona here. air force, colonel, you know about planes, about flights. tell me what vistrikes you here. >> well, why this particular aircraft? if you look at that display which is the transponders coming off all these aircraft, why that particular flight? why was that one singled out? it doesnt particularly present any kind of a threat. 32,000 feet, if thats what the altitude was, theres only one...

I see no public information that this occurred, but we cant exclude it at this point. >> is it a difficult system to operate? i mean, is it something that requires -- >> no. >> -- a large amount of training? >> not particularly. theyre very accurate. and once you get a lock on an airplane, once youve identify it had, its pretty easy, especially an airliner moving in a straight line to knock it down. the same way a sophisticated man pad. >> i want to bring in lieu tenant colonel francona as well....