"matt weber" wrote in message
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On Sat, 30 Aug 2003 07:03:37 -0400, Cub Driver
wrote:


Surely you are not suggesting the Australian Government deployed a
toothless RAAF FA/18 to pretend it was protecting (among other CHOGM
notables) HM QEII and that the armed one was still on the ground?

As I recall, some of the intercepting aircraft on 9/11 in the U.S.
weren't armed. There was a big hoo-hah at the time as to whether they
would have been ordered to crash into the airliner, had they reached
it in time.

At the time the last aircraft crashed on 9/11 there was not a single
armed fighter aircraft on the East Coast of the USA. The aircraft that
were sent to intercept had no weapons except the aircraft itself to
attack with. None of them made it in time to even intercept.

That is corret, NOT ONE. Nor was there a single operable air to air
missile on the East Coast either. The first Aircraft that actually
had live ammuntion doesn't get off the gound until about 10:15AM, and
the first fully armed aircraft (With AIM9's) doesn't get airborne
until about 10:30. The AIM9's had to be pulled from storage, and
assembled for use.

It is something that no one wants to talk about. We have spent
trillions for defense, yet when one was needed there was not a
single armed aircraft even parked on the ground anywhere in the
Eastern Half of the USA...

I suppose it is a good thing the Russians never attacked...

Ahhhhh yes, there's a lot to be said for 20/20 hindsight.

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