Mystery AtlasBuk Missile System
A Soviet-designed mobile surface-to-air missile system. Investigators concluded a Buk transporter-erector-launcher, tracked through satellite imagery and video geolocation to Russia's 53rd Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade, fired the 9M38-series missile that destroyed MH17.
In Ukraine
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Theories & Explanations
Buk Missile System supports JIT Buk Missile Finding.
Places
Buk Missile System is located in Ukraine — Transported into eastern Ukraine from the brigade's base in Kursk, Russia, for the launch, then filmed being driven back toward the Russian border overnight, per the JIT's reconstructed convoy route.
Organisations & Programmes
Buk Missile System was operated by 53rd Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade.