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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 21:32:55 PST
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- From: Jonathan Fisher <jfisher@NETXWEST.COM>
- Subject: Re: Further comments on Iraq ...
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- > > >uhh, I don't think so. By 'tracking', these units are in fact turning
- > > >on their radar. With their radar turned on, it is a simple matter to
- > > >push a button and launch missles. You don't launch missles until your
- > > >radar is on. These planes are only acting in self-defense.
- >
- > No, you are not quite correct there. What you are talking about
- > is having the radar assemblages spinning around, "let's see what
- > is out there." What (if I heard correctly) happened was the radar
- > was specifically looking at the planes, the radar held a track,
- > and a little light and and a little buzzer started saying to the
- > pilots "someone could fire a missile at you and you'd be dead."
- Right. I guess that I phrased my sentences poorly. There is
- passive and active tracking. Passive tracking happens all the time and
- you don't even have to have a weapon system attached to your radar.
- Active tracking is what happens immediately before a missle launch.
- > > >And if you
- > > >are flying a plane and want to wait until you actually _see_ a missile,
- > > >that's your death-wish.
- >
- > > I hope you don't advocate this action _everywhere_; the US regularly orders
- > > fly-overs of other countries for intelligence purposes...if and when those
- > > countries activate their radars (again, their right - since the planes would
- > > be violating international law), would it be OK for the US planes (ie,
- > > the violaters) to bomb the radar sites?
- >
- > 1) a SR-71, for example, does not have weaponry. Few spy planes do,
- > as the cameras are very bulky, carrying all those telephotos and
- > all. As such, they cannot bomb the radar sites.
- > And, by the way, a good jet can go about Mach3, maybe. Missiles
- > go up to Mach 4, with *MUCH* better maneuverability. If you can
- > eyeball a missile, you are dead. Simple as that.
- And don't forget that there are serious rumors that the USAF has developed
- a super top-secret very high-speed plane. They say that this plane can
- go MACH 6. Yes, I said MACH 6! If such is the case, then they can just
- outrun those missles.
- >
- > > -T.
- >
- > Dave
- > t9aa@sdsumus.sdstate.edu
- >
- Jonathan
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