To: Red Badger
This makes no sense. Flares are a missle countermeasure ejected behind the aircraft; not an offensive weapon.
4 posted on
12/14/2017 11:17:57 AM PST by
Flick Lives
(The FBI is a corrupt partisan organization.)
To: Flick Lives
It was just for show, “I see you!”.........................
5 posted on
12/14/2017 11:20:06 AM PST by
Red Badger
(Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
To: Flick Lives
The article implies that the flares were being used as a visual warning.
7 posted on
12/14/2017 11:20:54 AM PST by
Army Air Corps
(Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
To: Flick Lives
Makes you wonder if it was the US planes that were on the ‘wrong side’ and when they noticed they were ‘target locked’ they launched their flares and got the heck out of there.
14 posted on
12/14/2017 11:22:30 AM PST by
UCANSEE2
(Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
To: Flick Lives
OTOH, the SU-25 Frogfoot has no real A2A capability. If AWACS said they were un-escorted then the Raptors may have been ordered to demonstrate like this.
46 posted on
12/14/2017 12:09:45 PM PST by
Tallguy
(Twitter short-circuits common sense. Please engage your brain before tweeting.)
To: Flick Lives
obvious that some rouge elements inside pentagon are trying to provoke a war
54 posted on
12/14/2017 1:03:51 PM PST by
vooch
(America First Drain the Swamp as)
To: Flick Lives
Yes, sounds like some mis-reporting going on.
I’m in shock! /s
64 posted on
12/14/2017 5:18:14 PM PST by
EarlyBird
(There's a whole lot of winning going on around here!)
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