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The system is deployed on a tracked vehicle with a crew of four, who can autonomously identify targets and fire the missiles, according to the reference book “Russia’s Arms.” The book, published by Russia’s state weapons exporter, says the system is “designed to destroy,” airplanes, helicopters, drones and missiles at low altitudes.

At Boryspil International Airport near Kyiv, where Flight 752 had been due to land, grieving flight attendants tended to candles set on the floor in front of a makeshift memorial to the nine crew members who had lost their lives. Black-framed portraits of the victims, their names printed on folded sheets of printer paper, rested on a table in front of a pile of flowers several feet high.

A flight attendant named Tatyana, who declined to give her last name because she was not authorized to speak to the news media, said she had visited the memorial on Wednesday evening to pay her respects. She said she had flown the Tehran route before, adding that she always understood that the flight came with additional risks because of the political volatility surrounding Iran.

“Of course there were concerns, risks to those flights,” she said. “We took this responsibility upon ourselves when we joined the airline — to be ready for anything to happen.”