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If we get so cavalier about shooting things down, sounds like a good way to make a mistake. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_Air_Flight_655 https://en.wikipe
by sitkack 4y ago
If we get so cavalier about shooting things down, sounds like a good way to make a mistake.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_Air_Flight_655 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_Air_Flight_655
- diebeforei485 4y agoUnlikely to make such a mistake when using air-to-air missiles (not surface to air or sea to air).
- sitkack 4y agoYou assume that all future shoot downs will use the same technique.
- diebeforei485 4y agoWell, they should have some sort of visual confirmation. A live satellite view would be equally good.
- IndrekR 4y agoAlso later episodes from 2020: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine_International_Airlines_Flight_752 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine_International_Airlines... and 2014: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia_Airlines_Flight_17 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia_Airlines_Flight_17
- lame-robot-hoax 4y agoIt was an F-22 that could obviously tell whether or not it was shooting down a commercial airliner.
- phpisthebest 4y agoAre you relaying on the visual approach of the pilot, or claiming the F22 has better indent tech than ground / space based tech? F22 (and the F35) are optimized for beyond visual range air-to-air combat, so I am not sure if the pilot visually sees the thing before firing.
- MichaelNolan 4y ago> so I am not sure if the pilot visually sees the thing before firing. In all three cases, the pilots have visually confirmed the objects were unmanned. The order to fire has come after that confirmation.
- tshaddox 4y agoAre you making a slippery slope argument, like if we keep shooting down things that aren’t commercial flights that’s a slippery slope to shooting down things that are commercial flights?
- sitkack 4y agoI am not, I am saying what I said, if we make the shoot downs routine, we run the risk of shooting something down that we don’t intend to. If we start doing patrols with loaded fighters, it greatly increases the chance of an accident. Perhaps we are unwittingly giving away SIGINT on the weapons used to shoot them down.
- perihelions 4y agoThere's an entire category for this thing, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_airliner_shootdown_incidents https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_airliner_shootdown_inc...