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There's many things stopping someone from creating and using a rocket launcher capable of taking down aircraft without being caught. Mostly the technical diffic

There's many things stopping someone from creating and using a rocket launcher capable of taking down aircraft without being caught. Mostly the technical difficulty, but the FBI's tactics for finding bomb-makers would probably find a rocket-launcher-maker.

jisaacstone 15y ago
The FBI's tactics for finding bomb-makers would presumably find a bomb-laden passenger as well then?
- pbiggar 15y ago
  Which is indeed how most bomb plots are foiled.
  - Drbble 15y ago
    Most bomb plots are mentally ill or disabled people enticed, set up, and ntrapped by the FBI.
  - Drbble 15y ago
    Most bomb plots are mentally ill or disabled people enticed, set up, and entrapped by the FBI.
    - pbiggar 15y ago
      I meant that it seems that real terrorism plots are largely caught by offline counter-terrorist stuff, and never by the TSA.
    - mokus 15y ago
      That's an extraordinary claim, and if untrue, libelous as well. Have you any evidence to present?
      - rubyrescue 15y ago
        In numerous cases the FBI has been accused of entrapment... http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/sep/29/fbi-entrapment-rezwan-ferdaus http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/sep/29/fbi-entrapment-r...
zeteo 15y ago
You know, in the infamous Black Hawk Down incident they shot down military aircraft with nothing more than an RPG. Devices that can put an explosive charge a few dozen feet into the air don't really require that much sophistication.
- slavak 15y ago
  Black Hawk Down was an incredibly lucky (for the Somalians) accident that, if memory serves, was enabled by the combination of huge, close-by targets holding perfectly still, and a whole crap-load of rockets fired into the air. All this is to say that you have about as much of a chance of shooting down a commercial airliner with an RPG as you do by throwing rocks at it. With that said, good luck getting something with the firepower equivalent of an RPG anywhere close enough to a commercial aircraft to even be within the weapon's maximum range.
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jisaacstone 15y ago

The FBI's tactics for finding bomb-makers would presumably find a bomb-laden passenger as well then?

pbiggar 15y ago
Which is indeed how most bomb plots are foiled.
- Drbble 15y ago
  Most bomb plots are mentally ill or disabled people enticed, set up, and ntrapped by the FBI.
- Drbble 15y ago
  Most bomb plots are mentally ill or disabled people enticed, set up, and entrapped by the FBI.
  - pbiggar 15y ago
    I meant that it seems that real terrorism plots are largely caught by offline counter-terrorist stuff, and never by the TSA.
  - mokus 15y ago
    That's an extraordinary claim, and if untrue, libelous as well. Have you any evidence to present?
    - rubyrescue 15y ago
      In numerous cases the FBI has been accused of entrapment... http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/sep/29/fbi-entrapment-rezwan-ferdaus http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/sep/29/fbi-entrapment-r...

zeteo 15y ago

You know, in the infamous Black Hawk Down incident they shot down military aircraft with nothing more than an RPG. Devices that can put an explosive charge a few dozen feet into the air don't really require that much sophistication.

slavak 15y ago
Black Hawk Down was an incredibly lucky (for the Somalians) accident that, if memory serves, was enabled by the combination of huge, close-by targets holding perfectly still, and a whole crap-load of rockets fired into the air. All this is to say that you have about as much of a chance of shooting down a commercial airliner with an RPG as you do by throwing rocks at it. With that said, good luck getting something with the firepower equivalent of an RPG anywhere close enough to a commercial aircraft to even be within the weapon's maximum range.
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