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To: Steven W.
A fifty caliber sniper round fired up the runway could easily hit the 12' diameter jet intake and cause the engine to self destruct.

Instead of posting National Guardsmen inside of terminals, they should be on the perimeters and approaches.

58 posted on 11/12/2001 12:37:15 PM PST by Travis McGee
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To: Travis McGee
You said "A fifty caliber sniper round fired up the runway could easily hit the 12' diameter jet intake and cause the engine to self destruct.

Instead of posting National Guardsmen inside of terminals, they should be on the perimeters and approaches."

Only if the plane was less than 4 miles away from the shooter. And only if the round was one of the anti-armored vehicle ones.

71 posted on 11/12/2001 12:43:48 PM PST by TheRealLobo
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To: Travis McGee
A fifty caliber sniper round fired up the runway could easily hit the 12' diameter jet intake and cause the engine to self destruct.

NO NO NO!

You don't understand - a *single* 50 caliber round can cause a rupture in the space-time continuum - obviously what happened is that the terrorists caused two versions of the plane to appear, and the copy bumped into the real one, causing them both to crash!

It must be true, I read it on one of those anti-gun sites.

79 posted on 11/12/2001 12:47:30 PM PST by ikka
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To: Travis McGee
Instead of posting National Guardsmen inside of terminals, they should be on the perimeters and approaches.

Very sensible suggestion -- regardless of the actual cause of events this morning. The possibility exists, and security forces did find an RPG near the Prague airport a couple weeks ago.

119 posted on 11/12/2001 1:06:41 PM PST by AMDG&BVMH
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To: Travis McGee; right_to_defend
Travis: A fifty caliber rifle which can hit a 3' circle at 2,000 yards would be able to hit the 12' diameter jet intake at a mile with no problem.

While a 12' target at 1760 yards is within the realm of a match grade .50 caliber bench rest rifle, the odds of making that shot are greatly reduced when you factor that the target is Moving at High Speed and add to that the odds of a shooter being directly on the centerline of the intake.

right_to_defend: Yes, it makes sense to me. I always figured a SAM was necessary to bring down a jet. But if you can buy a rifle in K-Mart that can do it, I'm almost surprised it hasn't happened before.

Are you sure your not Dianne Feinstein ?

All this talk of a shooter is wild speculation and is playing into the hands of HCI and the anit-gun lobby.

185 posted on 11/12/2001 1:47:23 PM PST by in the Arena
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