Originally Posted by
rickair7777
That was adjudicated an accident. After we drove a spy ship into a hot war zone. Fog of war happens. Yawn.
It is a good example of why not to trust IL to exercise restraint, but that's the extent of the significance.
Iran started a battle with US naval forces, and they flew an airliner right into it. Fog of war happens. Yawn.
All excused under the guise of “fog of war.” Somehow, I have a feeling if Iran had done that, they don’t get any benefit of the doubt of “fog of war.”
By the way, “they” needs to be a distinction between the military of Iran, versus civilian airliner who has nothing to do with the nonsense going on in the SOH.
The Americans had access to flight schedule pamphlets, a screen that showed the airplane clearly climbing away at 250 knots, not diving. And no, they weren’t monitoring 121.5. Bandar Abbas to Dubai is a short flight. Radio #2 would have have been busy getting weather, company ops, in range, etc. Not to mention, the F14 was not a carrier/destroyer attack aircraft with how they had them equipped.
But “fog of war” are some (not all) of a certain type of person I see in my CCW class. The ones who are sprung and ready, literally looking for a reason to shoot and legally kill someone.
Thankfully one time there was a certain Russian commander who was able to not be confused with fog of war, use a clear rational sound mind, and decide that he was not looking at 5 real nukes in his screen headed towards Russia from America.