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Heat-Seeking Missiles in Syria: The SA-7 in Action with Rebels. Choppers & Jets Being Shot-Down Left & Right
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FSA captures two pilots after shooting down their plane near Aleppo
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link to english.alarabiya.net
]
The first video, embedded below and posted today, shows what would appear to be a two-man hunter-killer team with an SA-7, waiting for an aircraft from hiding behind a building.
The second video shows what appears to be a weapon of the same class being fired at a passing fixed-wing jet. The video is not perfect. And it is not possible in the jerky and grainy video to determine which type of missile is in use, but at about 2:02 its audio seems to capture the sound of a missile’s launching and then shows the telltale corkscrew signature of the weapon through the air.
The missile appears to miss and – from here things become less clear – it is possible that the video shows lingering flares from the area where the missile traveled in flight. This might be the signature of a countermeasure system in the targeted aircraft, which dumped the flares to confuse and thwart the missile’s seeker head.
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link to atwar.blogs.nytimes.com
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