Manufacturers BUK missile shoots down case handling charges MH17 in Ukraine

Adviser to the chief engineer Mikhail Almaz-Antey Malyshevsky inform, impact damage to the wreckage has allowed them to identify the type of missile used. - File photo

MOSCOW: Russian air defense systems manufacturer, Almaz-Antey, the European Union wants to sue because of restrictions and charges not directly related to the tragedy imposed upon aircraft Malaysia Airlines MH17, reports Russia Today news portal.

"The European Union's Restriction on the Almaz-Antey is influenced by his involvement in the tragedy MH17 aircraft shot down in eastern Ukraine.

"The purpose of this press conference is to prove that we are not involved in the tragedy," said Chief Executive Officer of Almaz-Antey Yan Novikov.

Adviser to the chief engineer Mikhail Almaz-Antey Malyshevsky inform, impact damage to the wreckage has allowed them to identify the type of missile used.

According to him, BUK 9M317 missiles used Russian Armed Forces does not matter because the fragments were found not to match the destruction of the aircraft.

"The nature of damage to the aircraft is of a type BUK9M38 missiles and BUK9M38-M1 and the impact of fragments were found in the wreckage.

"The destruction of the aircraft seen consistent with a missile 9M38-M because it has a special trajectory with a 40 percent shrapnel occur in vertical movements," explains Malyshevsky.

Almaz-Antey also have evidence that the system BUK-M1 air defense and missile troops still in use Ukraine in 2005, and based on the record, they have a total of 991 missiles 9M38M1 at that time.

"The missile hit the plane MH17 reliable the 9M38-M1, not issued by the Russian Federation since 1999," said the Almaz-Antey.

He added that the missile firing was not likely to be released from Snezhny because the investigation revealed that it was launched on the village Zaroschshenskoe. If it was shot from Snezhny, the entire cabin before the plane will explode and disappear.

"If necessary, we can run tests on site with the participation of independent experts," said Novikoz.

However, according to them, a country that has a missile that hit the aircraft is still unknown MH17 than not rule out the possibility that there are other aircraft involved in the tragedy.

Almaz-Antey also said it only makes technical analysis and not speculate whether Kiev or other parties to blame.

Meanwhile, officials of Ukraine said that his country has a missile system BUK M-1 but on the day the incident took place he had no control over the suspected location of the missile was launched.