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Russia has a military with a lot of equipment that is at least that old.

The US shooting down that airliner is also mentioned in that WSJ article that this thread is about.

Yeah, it provides some history, and I wouldn't have flagged it personally, even though I don't think it was a particularly good response to the question. But then some one flagged my comment too, so maybe just trolls flagging everything.

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