No, but unlike you I think I know what I'm talking about and I'm basing my opinions on actual military experience and not a taste for conspiracy theories or hatred of the military. Submarines do not have surface to air missiles, they would be absolutely worthless on them. But say for the sake of argument they did, do you honestly believe that someone would be insane enough to propose testing it by firing it into the most densely traveled air corridor in the world? I mean my God, can you honestly believe that the navy would be stupid enough to do that? Why?
Why don't you Google "TWA 800 radar," and have a look around.
So you actually believe that the Islip ATC radar was tracking surface targets? You actually believe that? Stop and think for once. Why would an air traffic control radar pick up anything on the surface anywhere? If your air traffic radar is returning echoes from boats, trucks, water towers, fire trucks, big buildings, submerging submarines, super secret missile launches, and what not, how are you going to pick out the airplanes from all that clutter? Wouldn't you want to direct your radar beams so they would, like, pick up airplanes? Isn't that what it's there for?
Do you think the people who present this made it up or merely misinterpret it?
Probably both. You all are so hell-bent on trashing the military that you'll swallow anything, no matter how ridiculous, that fit your tin-foil tales. But hey, knock yourself out. The harder you try the dumber it all looks. But one last point. You want proof how wrong your crazy theories are? Look at the newspapers and their coverage of the military in Iraq. The MSM will stop at nothing to trash the services, and would jump at the chance to do it over this. If the Navy had shot down TWA 800 they would cover the airwaves with it.
You wear me out. You haven't a clue. ATC radar uses mathematical algorithms to eliminate ground clutter. Pointing the radar up doesn't do much good because if you point up at angles sufficient to eliminate ground returns, you're not going to capture much more than the Space Shuttle ten miles distant from your equipment. Curvature and diffraction work against you. Check out Radar Basics - Clutter.
Maybe you should give your insight to the NTSB. One of their reports shows a number of slow moving tracks in the vicinity of the crash. According to this report, some of these were captured by the Islip radar you say cannot have seen these targets.
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