To: OutSpot
No missile is credible.
200,000 feet up and 6,000 mph requires ABM technology. (And even our recent tests are only now getting close enough to go to phase 2 and consider deployment.
Internal sabatoge? (sp)
Certainly possible. Blow the tail or loosen a few tiles. Not likely, given the inspections going on on: those are white glove and fully smocked areas, almost impossible to get to without an inspector tagging along, or being caught by a later technician checking something else. (Nobody is going to "ignore" an "extra black box" stuffed haphazardly into the tail section or engine area.)
To: Robert A. Cook, PE
Or the code in the onboard computer systems.
1,877 posted on
02/01/2003 10:25:43 AM PST by
Archangelsk
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