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Look at that two rockets missing, also some reports that there was a cargo jet in the area and it just flat out missed so the sa-11 rocket launcher has some open silos there that shows they could have sent it out. it's moving in the wrong direction. it's in and around the area which it was rumored to be. because of, this we are confirming it with the daily mail that was originally put out that this is indeeds authentic. >> 298 lives lost. slaughtered mid-air as -- rocket launcher brought over othe border apparently weeks ago some would say. and, you know, not only this. nato, there was a warni...

There has been constant training -- you have to understand, the ukrainian military, the one in the soviet system there was a conscript on it. so many people were trained in the weapons system. and the sa-11 that was fired was a late-70s type of technology. soviet systems are notoriously not as technical as what we have seen because they were meant for the conscript army, as well as they're designed for the massive production techniques. >> so making this kind of error might make more sense if we're talking about that sort of weapon? >> well, i wouldn't call this -- >> i'm presuming that there ...

It includes heavy weapons. and it includes anti-aircraft weapons. >> the anti-aircraft system that the united states says was responsible for the downing of malaysia airlines flight 17 is a soviet-era surface-to-air buk missile also called the sa-11. ukrainian government has those weapons in its possession as well. u.s. was unaware of any ukrainian systems near the scene of the crash, but as the ambassador to the united nations, samantha power, told the security council this morning, there were other sa-11s near the crash site. >> early thursday an sa-11 s.a.m. system was reported nearby by a ...

Missile that can shoot 33,000 feet into the air. it is a leap from where we were in terms of fear. i wonder, bob, how much of a jump in capability and danger is this for passenger travel around the world when you have this happen? this is right in the middle of europe. >> you know, you are absolutely right. what i have been thinking about the last couple of years are the surface to air missiles disappearing from libya and other places and afghanistan. if you would have told me a year ago it would be a russian advance system like the sa-11 i wouldn't have believed it. this is a huge leap threat...

>> i read the war head, explosives detected ton united states aircraft to riddle it with shrapnel. this plenty never had a chance, did it? >> anyone who is in a commercial airliner i would say probably did not have have a chance against. this again, this something that i trained against the sa-11. upgraded version of the sa-6. what i was trained to do in my cockpit is there is information coming in that tells me if a radar is painting me. information telling me if a radar is actually tracking me i'm going to try to break that radar lock. there is defensive maneuvers can i do. can i do last dit...