"DDAY" wrote in message
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(Harry Andreas) wrote:
especially against 9/11 style airliner attacks. It scrambles fast,
transits
fast, and has a long-range missile suited to bringing down large
lumbering targets such as airliners (and bombers).
It would never be used that way. Nobody would ever approve a long-range
shootdown of an airliner.
Yeah, but even at short(er) visual distances having the phoenix can be a
good thing. I can't be sure that a sidewinder or even an AMRAAM would
destroy the airliner enough so that it couldn't still kamikaze its target. A
sidewinder would take out an engine, and the AMRAAM maybe a wing section,
but you better goddamn believe a phoenix would make that airliner not fly in
a big hurry. It's an aerial torpedo... an airpedo! Seriously, doesn't it
have like a 150lb warhead? Plus the 90 miles worth of unused fuel? and the
radar would home straight in on the fuselage and just obliterate it.
Especially if you had, say, four or six of them heading toward the liner. Or
8 to 12 since they (tomcats) travel in pairs. And, I'd be a heluva lot more
scared of two tomcats off the cockpit than I would be of two hornets. They
just don't look mean.
Jason
can you imagine seeing 12 phoenixes streaking toward you?