And a retired General would have many many reliable assets he could call up on “out of the circle” so to speak.
He spoke with conviction, you do NOT become a General without conviction.
Maybe the Aussies will get some second hand ships or planes for “compensation”?
What would be very irksome is who or what planted a phony distress beacon.
Obviously more preparations need to be thought out as how to maintain communication. They thought they could stop it, next time they may succeed.
Shortwave, sat phones, even couriers to deliver video.
Always we need to adapt and be vigilant.
I think that they just spun a beer bottle and where it stopped is where they think it went, too controversial this new procedure, never been fully tested, and if they are wrong their stock will tank. Did they just get a major new contract or “bribe”?
What gets me is why are the intelligence communities so silent about the whereabouts of the passengers on land?
Are they hoping to get bigger fish, the actual nuke devices or to make a clean insertion and extraction?
If anything I would rather listen to a concocted story by Israel that they know where the jet is and are launching forces to destroy in before it attempts to destroy Israel.
I agree, all this bit aboutit west of Oz is diversionary, odds are too great to be true. I am waiting for an enraged Pakistan complaining about some incident real soon.
Makes sense, US sub chasers aircraft has always had the best gear, they can hear a shrimp fart at 5,000 feet down. They use the latest ROV a magnetic resonance imagery, even special mini torpedo platforms, just to name a few. Anybody can speculate other bells and whistles.
Just think of lost airline revenues if it were possible that after going through ALL the TSA inspections we are still at the whims of sleeper AQ Moslem pilots.
But as a diversion this hunt sw of Oz may just cause some Moslem rabbits elsewhere to stick their heads out of their holes.
Now they are saying the P8 did NOT find anything and returned to Perth, will not return until at least 10 hours later.
What this means is Breaking News for the next 48 hours of the same old tune.