The several videos available, sure don't look good for our Navy.. ..And if you recall, there was another airliner i roughly the same area that went dow...with the co-pilot shouting Ala Akbar. We heard no more from that one either.
How many recall when back in1983, a Korean airliner was shot down by Russian fighter aircraft? That was done near Sakhalin island. Many suspect they killed that flight because Congressman McDonald was aboard, a congressman who was instrumental in interrupting communism progress whenever possible.
Sakhalin island is one of the Kuril islands that Russia grabbed as WW2 ended, and unlike the US.. they never gave them back to Japan.
They STILL refuse to give them back.. Guess Russia is 'hard up" for land...