Re: KAL007 Coldwar Mystery

Pat Flannery <flanner@daktel.com> wrote:

:Fred J. McCall wrote:
:
:>Robocruiser screwed up. They ID'd an airliner that was climbing and
:>opening as an F-14 that was diving and closing. Even if they had been
:>RIGHT there wasn't much that an F-14A configured like the ones we sold
:>to the Iranians could do to a ship.
:
:Key words: "F-14A configured like the ones we sold to the Iranians"
:The Iranians could have modified it. I've never seen a photo of one, but
:the Iranians were supposed to have modified their F-14s to carry Hawk
:SAMs in an air to air mode in place of the Phoenix missiles.

Which didn't work for shit, by the way. The AWG-9 in no way gives
guidance to HAWK.

:If they could pull that stunt off,

They couldn't.

:hanging bombs on it would be a piece
:of cake by comparison.

And hitting anything with them without ANY kind of air-to-ground
aiming system would take a bloody miracle!

There's much more to strike warfare than just hanging ordnance on the
airplane.

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