The Buk developer established the missile launch area for the Malaysian Boeing

The Almaz-Antey concern, the developer of the Buk anti-aircraft systems, claims that the Malaysian Boeing, which died in July 2014 near Donetsk, was shot down by a 9M38M1 missile fired from the Buk-M1 complex.

“Based on the nature of the holes in the fragments of the aircraft fuselage, based on a comprehensive analysis of the damage, it was concluded that in this case a 9M38M or 9M38M1 type missile with a 9M314 or 9M314M1 type warhead was used, since only in them the striking elements have an “I-beam” shape,” the adviser said general designer of the concern Mikhail Malyshevsky at a press conference in Moscow.

According to him, Almaz-Antey could not supply such an old rocket to anyone.

As a BBC correspondent reports, according to the concern's specialists, the Buk complex fired from the territory of Ukraine, but not from the Snizhne region, but from the region south of Zaroshchensky, which, according to their version, was under the control of Ukrainian troops.

As Almaz-Antey experts say, if the missile had launched from the Snezhny area, the picture of the plane being hit would have been different: the course would have been oncoming, but here it was “sideways.”

According to Malyshevsky, the rocket exploded in 3 – 4 meters from the outer skin of the aircraft, closer to the left side of the cockpit.

Almaz-Antey, the developer of the Buk anti-aircraft systems, compiled an analytical report on the crash of flight MH17 in eastern Ukraine, which was compiled with the participation of specialists who investigated the crash of a Russian Siberia Airlines plane shot down by Ukrainian air defense over the Black Sea in 2001 year.

At the beginning of May, Novaya Gazeta published a new version of the death of the Malaysian Boeing, according to which the Buk fired from the area of ​​the village of Zaroshchenskoye, which was allegedly under the control of the Ukrainian military.

Last summer, Ukrainian security forces, in response to accusations from Russia, stated that at the time of the Boeing crash, Zaroshchenskoye was no longer under their control and there were no Ukrainian Buk-M1 installations in that area.

In response to a request from the BBC, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine stated that the Ukrainian army had never used an air defense system at all.