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To: Royal Wulff

Don’t think a MANPAD can hit 31k feet. Probably a Buk again. Or something similar.


59 posted on 10/31/2015 2:39:42 AM PDT by Monty22002
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To: Monty22002

A British C-130 was downed in Iraq in ‘06 flying at 30,000’. The insurgents, AKA Al Qaeda-in-Iraq, AKA ISIS video taped it and I saw the video. They lined up under the known flight path between 2 navigation beacons and fired unguided rockets at approaching aircraft. Eventually they hit the Brit C-130. It was blown to pieces with wreckage scattered all over.

The solution was to fly slightly offset the flight line rather than directly between 2 points. Never happened again.


75 posted on 10/31/2015 4:00:15 AM PDT by Justa
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