Originally Posted by
ShyGuy
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.
They literally flew right into it. The IR government let them do it. No sympathy.
The FAA would have closed any such airspace to US aircraft.
Originally Posted by
ShyGuy
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.
Monday morning QB is easy, especially when you have the enemy talking points and no combat experience and no military experience.
Originally Posted by
ShyGuy
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.
Are we talking about a road-raging redneck in a pickup truck? Or geoplitical affairs?