[Hodar]

All the paint in the world won't mask their radar signature or profile. I am not an expert on identifying aircraft; but there is no way I could confuse a Canadian Regional Jet with a F-15.

[jazusamo]

I suppose most of what Weisman says is possible but most anything is possible. I would be curious to know if he is working on another novel.

[Malsua]

Coupled with the previous article about Iran wanting direct flights to the US...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1565476/posts

What do you have?

[blam]

If I lived in DC, I'd move.

[Billthedrill]

It takes quite a bit more than a paint job to make a jetliner appear legitimate. A properly electronically-identified substitution flight from, say, Caracas, that ended up depositing a nuke on an American city would be treated as the act of war it most certainly would be and Caracas would cease to exist. Tehran would as well. There is no way they would not be found out and the damage they'd do to the U.S. would be a candle compared to the firestorm that would come in reply.

[ryan71]

Don't US ATC's have schedules of foreign commercial aircraft entering US airspace? They would know origins and airlines.

Also, wouldn't the aircraft have to squawk a legitimate IFF signal that would coincide with the schedule?

Terrorists could try to imitate a commercial aircraft already scheduled to enter US airspace, but wouldn't it be funny to an ATC if he had 2 Flying Carpet Airlines, flight 666 aircraft on his radar display?

Oh well, if they ever dropped ONE Fatboy on us, I hope we could prove who did it and absolutely vaporize them.

[FReepaholic]

I just started reading Col. North's book and loading nukes on passenger jets against the US is part of the plot in this book.

[dennisw]

bttt