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Originally posted by Slap Nuts
careful, you are falling into his "trap".... You can see through that like it is a lokout "tower". Probably not AA.
Originally posted by thesaint
No Chance i was a sniper myself and the last thing a sniper wants is to be in a big white box shouting "hey look at me in this big white box im a sniper" obviously looking at that picture the sniper would not need to be covert due to the other bodies up there.
And anyway what good would a sniper be with his 7.62 weapon against a commercial aircraft
Originally posted by deltaboy
Originally posted by thesaint
No Chance i was a sniper myself and the last thing a sniper wants is to be in a big white box shouting "hey look at me in this big white box im a sniper" obviously looking at that picture the sniper would not need to be covert due to the other bodies up there.
Whoever says it needs to have snipers in the box? Could just be a watchtower for other Secret Service members.
And anyway what good would a sniper be with his 7.62 weapon against a commercial aircraft
Theres a reason why they are called countersniper team. Its meant for that. Not as a SAM team.
Originally posted by deltaboy
What trap?
Deny Ignorance
Originally posted by marcopolo
thats a very good documentary, everytime my minds made up something on this changes it...brilliant. Though the evidence to back up anything really is none to say that they are all coincidences is to be blatantly ignorant.
Deny Ignorance
[edit on 13-9-2006 by marcopolo]
Originally posted by Zaphod58
What everyone is forgetting is that while the Pentagon is where the Joint Chiefs, NMCC and all are located, in event of an attack NORAD takes charge of things. The Pentagon was expected to be destroyed in the nuclear attack on the US, because Washington was such a choice target.
As far as the Pac-3 launcher, have you seen a Pac-3 system?
That's not the easiest thing in the world to hide. You can't disguise the radar as a trailer or have large amounts of metal around it, or it doesn't function nearly as well.
Originally posted by Zaphod58
Sure, and during the Cold War, there were a huge number of armed fighters ready to launch to stop any threats. The biggest threat to the US was from the outside coming in, and when they entered the ADIZ (Air Defense Identification Zone) off the coast, or were detected coming through Canada, then the fighters would launch to intercept them. After the Cold War ended that force was downsized to the 14-21 that we had on 9/11.
Originally posted by Zaphod58
Prior to 9/11 there were NO planes that were used as weapons after being hijacked. They were all landed somewhere, demands me, negotiations carried out, etc. Transponders were not shut down, tracking was easy, and the fighters knew where to be to intercept them if that was required. However, there were VERY few hijackings in the United States. One of the few (which wasn't even a hijacking really) that I can remember off the top of my head was a disgruntled airline employee who took the same flight as his former boss (after the employee was fired), went into the cockpit, killed both pilots and crashed the plane.
As far as not responding, there are transponder codes they can use to show radio out, and datalinks to the company they can use. And transponder failures are more common than you think. So it's not automatic that if a plane stops responding that they'll notify NORAD, UNLESS it's in or near an ADIZ or restricted airspace.
[edit on 9/13/2006 by Zaphod58]