Posted on 08/19/2014 9:28:15 AM PDT by winoneforthegipper
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) banned passenger flights from overflying Syria yesterday.
Bloomberg News reported on the FAA’s announcement:
“The ongoing armed conflict and volatile security environment in Syria poses a serious potential threat to civil aviation,” the agency said. “Armed extremist groups in Syria are known to be equipped with a variety of anti-aircraft weapons which have the capability to threaten civilian aircraft.”
Citing a “respected international research group,” the Associated Press reported that the terror groups may have “hundreds” of the portable anti-aircraft weapons.
The report was released just hours after the Federal Aviation Administration issued a notice Monday to US airlines banning all flights in Syrian airspace. The agency said armed extremists in Syria are “known to be equipped with a variety of anti-aircraft weapons which have the capability to threaten civilian aircraft.” The agency had previously warned against flights over Syria, but had not prohibited them.
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Sounds like the Benghazi manpads made it to 0bama’s buddies in ISIS.
Yep...and worse...open borders eh?
Weapons and training courtesy of Obama.
Also there were reports ISIS took over the Tabqa airbase...which may have housed these bad boys.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-300_%28missile%29
That Sryan pilot was a dumbass if the report is true. The ceiling for a MANPADS missile is 15,000 ft.
Decades ago, I was a SHORAD Platoon Leader. Back then, we had Vulcan 20 mm cannons and Chaparral (Sidewinder) missile systems. Redeye & Stingers were usually found in infantry and armor divisions, as well.
The max effective range of a Vulcan was 1000 meters. In actuality, it was maybe 750m. Against supersonic aircraft, it was only good for spitting a bunch of tracers that would hopefully cause the pilot to stray from his flight path to his target.
The Chaparral had a max effective range of 2000 meters, under perfect conditions.
You're absolutely right over the farcical decision of the FAA. So long as they're flying at 30,000 feet, no MANPAD could get within two miles of an aircraft.
They were right by or actually controlling their airbase.
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