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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. India's 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 Dynamics Ltd (BDL) as part of its effort to secure a deal with the Indian military to purchase the Bri...

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 that's one of the things that everybody's trying to get to terms with at this point in time. and then, of course, for the russians, there's also the aftermath. trying to get the body of this pilot back. they're obviou...

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 can't go above 20,000 feet. so it's pretty clear that it wouldn't be a man pad that brought down that, just as man pads were used by the mujahadin against the soviets in afghanistan and actually helped to turn the war. what else is there? if we look at the mh-17 disaster it was a buck missile sy...

Hours. what was your immediate reaction? and you're an expert. >> i found it to be completely understandable. there you have an active war going on. you've got an international airport where planes are coming in to land and take off. as we just saw, you don't 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 same as peter. what tom foreman just said i don't think has gotten enough attention. these shoulder-...

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. we've been worrying about it for a long time. the threat is not as much as what we just saw happened to the malaysian plane. it's 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 thousands of feet but not to 30,000 feet except for the most very advanced versions you'll see. we hav...