LONDON/WASHINGTON ¨C Photographs of debris from the downed Malaysian jet show what seem to be telltale holes left by a missile strike on the Boeing Co. 777, defense experts said.
One image of a heavily perforated piece of fuselage that appears to come from the plane¡¯s cockpit suggests damage from a ground-fired warhead, analysts at research group IHS Jane¡¯s said Tuesday.
¡°The punctures seen in the photograph are relatively uniform in size,¡± said Reed Foster, manager of military capabilities at IHS Jane¡¯s. ¡± This would potentially be consistent with a fragmentation-type warhead employed upon a number of modern and legacy surface-to-air missile systems.¡±
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