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so you cannot trivially go hit something with a ground-to-air missile. why the downvotes? this was the actual stated reason when this was requested

toomuchtodo 6y ago
Which is silly, because ground-to-air ordinance could just listen on ADS-B RF itself for the target (you too can listen in with a software defined radio if you're in the vicinity or have gear that can listen in the area). It's security theater, not an actual mitigation against a threat actor with access to an anti aircraft weapon. For anything not broadcasting ADS-B, you can use multilateration (time difference of arrival) to determine positioning of dumb transponders. Flightaware does this [1]. [1] https://flightaware.com/adsb/mlat/ https://flightaware.com/adsb/mlat/
jaywalk 6y ago
Umm, well, there is this issue that you can actually see the plane without a delay, so...
- kingbirdy 6y ago
  Requiring a line of site makes it much more difficult than giving real-time tracking data away
  - TerrorKing 6y ago
    That's why The Rurists (Terrorists) try to hit a plane when it takes off or lands. Easier to hit. Even with a stinger. Just hang out by the airport with your favourite Stinger Launcher and you're good to go. No need to hit it at 30,000 feets. I'd hit it at landing takeoof the ground taxiing etc. Works for me.
    - rfrey 6y ago
      No wonder that’s why 9/10 of the weekly terrorist takedowns of aircraft I read about are near airports.
metalliqaz 6y ago
Not sure why an answer to the question would be downvoted. Anyway, it's possible that the reason was no so much ground-to-air missiles but rather ground-to-air weapons. In other words, idiots trying to shooting guns at airplanes or put up balloons in their path.
wrsh07 6y ago
I suspect people downvoted it as a seemingly low effort post - ambiguous about whether it's a joke and no citation to indicate it isn't I tried briefly googling, but while it's easy to find others talking about the delay [1], I didn't find a why confirmation [1] https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/3052/is-there-an-api-to-get-real-time-faa-flight-data https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/3052/is-there-a...

toomuchtodo 6y ago

Which is silly, because ground-to-air ordinance could just listen on ADS-B RF itself for the target (you too can listen in with a software defined radio if you're in the vicinity or have gear that can listen in the area). It's security theater, not an actual mitigation against a threat actor with access to an anti aircraft weapon. For anything not broadcasting ADS-B, you can use multilateration (time difference of arrival) to determine positioning of dumb transponders. Flightaware does this [1]. [1] https://flightaware.com/adsb/mlat/ https://flightaware.com/adsb/mlat/

jaywalk 6y ago

Umm, well, there is this issue that you can actually see the plane without a delay, so...

kingbirdy 6y ago
Requiring a line of site makes it much more difficult than giving real-time tracking data away
- TerrorKing 6y ago
  That's why The Rurists (Terrorists) try to hit a plane when it takes off or lands. Easier to hit. Even with a stinger. Just hang out by the airport with your favourite Stinger Launcher and you're good to go. No need to hit it at 30,000 feets. I'd hit it at landing takeoof the ground taxiing etc. Works for me.
  - rfrey 6y ago
    No wonder that’s why 9/10 of the weekly terrorist takedowns of aircraft I read about are near airports.

metalliqaz 6y ago

Not sure why an answer to the question would be downvoted. Anyway, it's possible that the reason was no so much ground-to-air missiles but rather ground-to-air weapons. In other words, idiots trying to shooting guns at airplanes or put up balloons in their path.

wrsh07 6y ago

I suspect people downvoted it as a seemingly low effort post - ambiguous about whether it's a joke and no citation to indicate it isn't I tried briefly googling, but while it's easy to find others talking about the delay [1], I didn't find a why confirmation [1] https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/3052/is-there-an-api-to-get-real-time-faa-flight-data https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/3052/is-there-a...