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Originally Posted by bladeofdarkness
the TOR-M1 AA system mentioned is suppose to be fairly good.
and a civilian aircraft is a large slow target with zero electronic warfare capabilities.
hard to believe it would just miss.
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Technically, when flying over Iran you would want to fly at the maximum service altitude for passanger aircrafts.
For many planes that would be something in the region of 12.000m. According to Wikipedia this AA system has an engagement range of 12.000m and an engagement altitude of 6.000m. Now assuming it might be capable of reaching even 12.000m, it would still require the total engagement range to reach those heights. Which gives a window of attack equal to an area about nil around the missile launcher.
So, even if someone is very, very unlucky to fly straight over one such missile launcher, it would still be sort of a miracle to hit a transcontinental plane flying at its service ceiling using the mentioned missiles.