There is only one verified fact of application Buk Everything else should be removed in general212 119 233 82 Combat service Abkhaz authorities claimed that Buk air defense system was used to shoot down four Georgian drones at the beginning of May 2008 In the opinion of dependent media source An official certificate use of Buk not testify Analysts concluded that Georgian Buk missile systems were responsible for downing four Russian aircraft three Sukhoi Su 25 close air support aircraft and a Tupolev Tu 22 M strategic bomber in the 2008 South Ossetia war U S officials have said Georgia s SA 11 Buk 1 M was certainly the cause of the Tu 22 M s loss and contributed to the losses of the three Su 25s Georgian Military Folds Under Russian Attack By David A Fulghum Douglas Barrie Robert Wall and Andy Nativi AW ST 15 August 2008 According to some analysts the loss of four aircraft is surprising and a heavy toll for Russia given the small size of Georgia s military War Reveals Russia s Military Might and Weakness By Vladimir Isachenkov Associated Press 18 August 2008Georgia war shows Russian army strong but flawed Reuters 20 August 2008 Some have also pointed out that Russian electronic counter measures systems were apparently unable to jam and suppress enemy SAMs in the conflictRussian Army s weaknesses exposed during war in Georgi Nikita Petrov RIA Novosti 9 September 2008 and that Russia was surprisingly unable to come up with effective countermeasures against missile systems it had designed Georgia bought these missile systems from Ukraine which had an inquiry to determine if the purchase was illegal An official certificate use of Buk testify On 29 January 2013 the Israeli Air Force launched an airstrike on a convoy in Syria believed to have missiles SA 17 Air defense missiles and other ground ground missiles bound for Hezbollah in Lebanon The Syrian government denied that a shipment of weapons had taken place An official certificate use of Buk not testify Israeli Air Force targets a convoy of SA 17s in Syria Airrecognition com 31 January 2013 The system is suspected of having been used in the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 a Boeing 777 200ER on 17 July 2014 with 298 fatalities in eastern Ukraine An official certificate use of Buk not testify Media sources say the use of Buk S 125 MiG 29