Which Russian air defense system hit the Azerbaijani plane over Grozny

The air defense system operator could mistake a civilian aircraft for a drone and hit it with a missile.

Azerbaijani analysts compared photos of the damage to the Turkish Aksungur drone shot down in August 2024 by the Russian anti-aircraft missile system Pantsir-S1 in Iraq, and the entrance holes in the fuselage of the passenger plane of Azerbaijan Airlines that crashed on December 25 near the Kazakh city of Aktau.

This is written by the Azerbaijani Armed Forces portal.

Judging by the published photos, the consequences of the damage are identical.

Analysts noted that the new missiles of the Pantsir-S1 air defense system, which works against drones, do not have a homing head, but only a warhead that explodes…