[ml/nj]

sure, right off the coast of Long Island - a submarine is going to have a live-fire exercise within 50 nautical miles of a major airport

All written by people with no knowledge of how the USN conducts range clearing for live fire exercises, and no clue where those ranges are.

It was a terrorist attack close to the time of the election.

I tend to think a shoulder fired missile from a small boat.

It wasn’t a Navy missile period but you can’t talk with the tin hat crowd.

Whatever do you think this could mean?

It comes directly from a scan of a New York Sectional which is a map published by the Department of Commerce (this one from 1989) used primarily by pilots flying under Visual Flight Rules. Below you can see it at the lower-left corner of this larger image which shows the Hamptons area of Long Island and part of the Warning Area, "W-105a," which begins five to ten miles south of Long Island in this area.

For a discussion about terrorists vs. navy I would suggest my, "It wasn't terrorists. It couldn't have been," post to FreeRepublic sometime before 2000. Unfortunately all of these posts are no longer available due to some consent agreement. But some good person did capture the text of this post. It can be seen at https://www.mail-archive.com/ctrl@listserv.aol.com/msg66149.html.

ML/NJ

[maddog55]

The map and warning is supposed to prove something?

There’s test areas all over the east, west and gulf cost. The Chesapeake Bay alone has several. Florida has a ton including AUTEC. Hawaii has the Pacific Test Range. I’ve be done flight testing and missile testing in about all of them so what’s your point?

The warning you post and that map is nothing unusual and SOP. We did lots of missile ops right off the LA flight corridors which is extremely heavy in commercial flight.