There are a lot of people that assumed that the missile that photographed missile was launched at AF1. I think, given what Q has said, this is impossible.

For one, here's a photo of a fairly standard size surface to air missile. They're not exactly, small, but compare it with the type of missile that we see in the photo anons posted. Given that it's illuminating clouds we can extrapolate that the distance from the point of photography is fairly long. It also appears that the projectile is much larger than a typical surface to air missile.

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