Now, how exactly would investigators know those fine differences between warheads ?

I find this a little far fetched, I guess besides Almaz engineers and real world operators (read officers) no one knows

I don`t think there is an accesible database updated with that kind deep technical info……

Because Almaz-Antey provided that information to the Dutch Safety Board. Do a Control F search for bow-tie in the report.

http://cdn.onderzoeksraad.nl/documents/report-mh17-crash-en.pdf

The 9N314M warhead according to data from Almaz-Antey has the Bow-tie fragments

The 9N314 warhead according to data from Almaz-Antey has no Bow-tie fragments.

Bow-tie fragments were recovered from the body of the Captain of MH17 and also from the cockpit.

Cubic, Irregular and Bow-tie warhead fragments were all recovered from human remains.

Strangely the Russians can’t work out where the Bow-tie fragments come from ????

If it wasn’t such a tragedy it would be a farce. So just what are the Russian hinting at here? Of course they are leaving it very vague but it suggests that the bow-tie fragments were planted. An absolutely ridiculous suggestion but it diverts attention and blame away from direct Russian involvement.

The SA-11 was Ukrainian. Russia doesn’t use that model anymore. So it could only have been taken from the Ukrainian regime (assuming it was the rebels),

The Russian claims are a bit of a red herring. It is designed for I guess a Russian audience. To suggest or hint that Russia doesn’t have access to or use 9M38M1 is irresponsible non-sense.

The company also said that the last missile of this type was produced in the Soviet Union in 1986, that its life span is 25 years including all prolongations, and that all missiles of this type were decommissioned from the Russian Army in 2011.

https://www.rt.com/news/318531-mh17-experiment-almaz-antey/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=RSS

Despite this claim the Russian Army was still using the 9M38M1s. Many of these early types are used for training and test launches. 9M38M1s were still being fired in 2014 and 2015. Even launches were recorded and available on Russian forces TV in 2015!

9M38M1 being used by Russian forces during 2014. You’ll see a mixture of training rounds and live. Yes they are actually firing them at Telemba! You can see the dates on the screens at 2:13 (19th March 2014).

http://www.rg.ru/2015/06/02/antey-site-anons.html

Also available on Russian TV.

http://clipiki.ru/video/257352/Na-poligone-Telemba-zavershilis-ucheniya-voysk-PVO-i-aviatsii-20140424

9M38M1 in 2015

Russian forces TV

http://tvzvezda.ru/news/forces/content/201503250808-igb3.htm

9M38M1 being transported during 2014 Belgorod, Russia.

https://www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2015/06/03/evidence-the-russian-military-supplied-the-type-of-missile-used-to-shoot-down-mh17/#comments

9M38M1 catching fire in Chita during the Victory Parade in 2015.

The claim is dangled like a red herring but in reality the 9M38M1 used to down MH17 could easily have come direct from a Russian source.

Bellingcat have been doing some analysis on the geolocation of the videos released by the Russian MoD.

https://bellingcat.checkdesk.org/en/story/736

https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/articles/2015/10/05/crowdsourced-geolocation-and-analysis-of-russian-mod-airstrike-videos-from-syria/

https://www.bellingcat.com/news/mena/2015/10/06/initial-findings-of-the-crowdsourced-geolocation-and-analysis-of-russian-mod-airstrike-videos-from-syria/

why are they not wearing any G Suites ?

You have to take into consideration the macho thing/peer pressure within the deployment and VVS in general. It looks good for publicity shots in comparison to US/NATO pilots in full gear.

Red Star is back on the Su-24s.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=31&v=BLz0wtbkg1M

Hmm. :31, Su-30SM with covered up weaponry on the pylons. Wonder what it is.

You can see the same aircraft with close-ups of the covers over the weaponry in the following video. It just looks like covers over standard air-to-air missiles for dust/sand protection? There is also large covers of the same colour over the intakes.

Some folks on a french website claim that 6 Su30SM went to intercept 4 Israeli F15I coming in towards Syria from the sea.

Any credence to that? Are there even 6 Su30SM in theater?

Nic

No. It is called conspiracy people jumping on the bandwagon with inflated stories. Surely you understand why they do it?

This is the BS source.

https://strategika51.wordpress.com/author/strategika51/

Spin it?. Aircrafts are noisy for picking individuals that can disperse. It’s not big static target. It’s very inefficient and expensive of fighting wars. The best is to create large loyal militia that can surround area to create meat grinder. Than at very last moment introduce airpower. Otherwise even Saudis will find out too many airframe hours against houtis and not enough airforce left for next war.

Yes you are spinning it despite Putin stating that Russian air power and ground troops will not be involved in combat. What part of “no combat” don’t you understand? Yes Putin has sanctioned the deployment and made the chess move, but he won’t be willing to have the body bags coming home from involvement in direct combat. No MLRS, no artillery strikes, and no air power strikes. Think of the consequences after making the UN statement and an aircraft is lost over IS or rebel held territory either through malfunction or shoot down? Yes he keep putting in the caveat of “nothing is ruled out” but is he willing to risk aircrew or troops being killed or captured?

Russia has no plans for now to deploy combat troops in Syria, President Vladimir Putin said on Sunday, addressing U.S. concerns about a Russian military build-up.

In an interview with U.S. television networks recorded ahead of a meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama, Putin said the aim of Russia’s military presence in Syria was to support the government of President Bashar al-Assad against terrorist groups.

“Russia will not take part in any field operations on the territory of Syria or in other states; at least, we do not plan it for now,” he said in a transcript of the interview with U.S. television networks CBS and PBS released by the Kremlin.

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2015/09/27/uk-mideast-crisis-putin-usa-idUKKCN0RR14R20150927