Оправдания обезьян с гранатами

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Короче, по их версии за пультом ПВО сидела какая-то обезьяна, которая не могла связаться с командованием и поэтому сбила самолет, приняв его за ракету. 

Now I’m explaining it on the map. This is the place where the air defence unit is deployed … here is the city of Tehran … This is the air defence unit deployed here at 00:00 (Wednesday), and was prepared. And here’s the Imam Khomeini Airport. This plane takes off from here and takes this direction. It means this is the impact point. Given the information sent to this operator – that it is a wartime situation and a cruise missile has been fired – this poor guy identifies it as a cruise missile.

Well at such a situation, he was obliged to contact, get approval. This is where this operator makes the mistake; but at that moment, his communication system was apparently disrupted – whether because of jamming systems or the high traffic. For that reason, he fails to contact [his commanders]. He had 10 seconds to decide; he could hit or not hit [the target]. Under such circumstances, he decides to make that bad decision; he engages, the missile is fired, and the plane is hit at this place.

А авиационная служба ничего не знала про ракету, которую пустили по самолету, потому что военные ничего не сказали. Плюс ракета была маленькой, самолет в воздухе не развалился сразу же, а еще пролетел некоторое время. Поэтому авиационная организация и отрицала всё в начале.

Following the investigations, our friends [at General Staff] publicized the issue; but the Aviation Organization, based on its own experience – after all, they are not military – argued that if a missile hits a plane, it must explode up in the air. Well they said the plane has not been destroyed; it has turned around and wanted to land. Look, since the plane has been hit at a low altitude by a short-range missile with a small warhead and proximity fuze, it has exploded at the proximity [of the aircraft]; so the plane has found the chance to fly for a while; it hasn’t exploded in the air. After hitting the ground, it has collapsed.

So no one at the Aviation Organization knew about it, and I should defend my dear brothers there.

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