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Iraq
Local Iranian Claims to Take Photo of Missile Part Near Ukrainian Plane Crash, Tehran
2020-01-09
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A local took this image (L) near the PS752 crash site, clearly showing the control segment of a TOR M1 missile.
(via @Azematt) pic.twitter.com/afkfnYaP1r

— Heshmat Alavi (@HeshmatAlavi) January 8, 2020




Ed. That finned object is the flight controls package. The Tor M1 is guided by the radar on the launcher vehicle via a telemetry link and detonates on command. The HE-FRAG warhead is below the flight controls package in the missile body. It’s apparently an expanding rod design similar to the US AIM-9 Sidewinder warhead.
Update
Breaking: Pentagon, Iraqi officials tell Newsweek, CBS: Iran shot down the Ukraine flight
Posted by:Woodrow

#8  If that "local Iranian" is real and his find authentic he'll disappear just like that control segment already has (Iran claims nothing like this has been found).
Posted by: European Conservative   2020-01-09 10:10  

#7  "adjust your airliner flight patterns accordingly...or just don't fly to Iran"
Posted by: Frank G   2020-01-09 06:33  

#6  No great leap of analytical genius, but here are likely locations of additional TOR M1 (or similar) missile batteries. Iranian oil refineries and ports are not listed in the graphic, but must be assumed as AAA locations as well.
Posted by: Besoeker   2020-01-09 06:18  

#5  This creates a creepy symmetry to the Vincennes incident.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2020-01-09 05:47  

#4  So, we know not to send civilian airliners into Iran during action. They've got that down
Posted by: Frank G   2020-01-09 05:03  

#3  Re #2: Yep, 29 batteries according to wikipedia.

TEHRAN, February 7 2007(RIA Novosti) - Iran has successfully tested the TOR-M1 air defense missile system recently supplied by Russia, the Iranian news agency ISNA said, citing the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps responsible for national missile forces. The tests were part of military exercises that began in southern Iran Wednesday after Russia completed the delivery of 29 TOR-M1 anti-aircraft missile systems to Iran in late January under a $700 million contract signed at the end of 2005.
Posted by: Glinter Jaique8353   2020-01-09 02:12  

#2  Per Wiki, The Russian designed TOR M1 is in the Iran missile inventory.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_missile_system
Posted by: Besoeker   2020-01-09 02:02  

#1  Busted.
Posted by: Lex   2020-01-09 01:45  

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