Iranian investigators blame a misaligned missile battery and miscommunication between soldiers and their commanders for the Revolutionary Guard shooting down a Ukrainian jetliner in January, killing 176 people.
At the time, Iranian troops were bracing for a US counterstrike and appear to have mistaken the plane for a missile.
The report said the surface-to-air missile battery that targeted the Boeing 737-800 had been relocated and was not properly reoriented. In 2017, Iran took the delivery of 29 Tor M1 units from Russia under a contract worth an estimated $US700 million .The system is mounted on a tracked vehicle and carries a radar and a pack of eight missiles.
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