About the end of the runway SA-7 attack. How can our security patrols stop a couple of guys pulling up in a pickup truck, popping out a SA-7, and firing it at a jet taking off or landing? They don't have to be on airport grounds, they can sit in one of the many neighborhoods along the flight line. There's no way we can have enough security patrols to prevent that. The area is too large.
I've been baffled by the lack of SAM attacks on airliners for years. It seems so simple. What have I missed?
To: elfman2
"...About the end of the runway SA-7 attack.
How can our security patrols stop a couple of guys
pulling up in a pickup truck, popping out a SA-7,
and firing it at a jet taking off or landing?
They don't have to be on airport grounds,
they can sit in one of the many neighborhoods along the flight line.
There's no way we can have enough security patrols to prevent that..."
# 88 by mikegi
A total police state wouldn't provide enough agents to watch every area.
There is only one way to guard every populated area of the country.
A nation of armed citizens.
I'm not sure. Perhaps it's not as easy as it looks for someone with nothing to lose. Perhaps it was rarely seen as being to the advantage of people with something to lose, kind of like pulling on a tiger's tale.