Well Dulles is actually pretty far from the city, if you wanted to do it right, you'd go with Reagan. But I was mostly referencing the situation such as what happened on 9/11. Taking off from Boston supposed to be landing at LAX... It would be pretty easy to detect going off course if you are flying due south towards DC.. and Andrews is right there (where I am).
I have somewhat of a problem with your thoughts on this..
2. Fighter groups are manned 24/7 and they can scramble a flight of fighters in 10 minutes. Basically no matter where the plane is in the Continental United States, there is an Air Force base decently close. And with fighters flying at post-mach speeds, they can pretty much catch anything they want.
3. Shooting it down would not be hard at all. The aircraft is a sitting duck. Unlike a fighter to fighter dogfight, where the sidewinder missiles barely clip something, it would be likely to hit it directly, and you can launch several missiles within seconds.
haha a stinger missile will take a wing off but a sidewinder missile won't?
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Well Dulles is actually pretty far from the city, if you wanted to do it right, you'd go with Reagan. But I was mostly referencing the situation such as what happened on 9/11. Taking off from Boston supposed to be landing at LAX... It would be pretty easy to detect going off course if you are flying due south towards DC.. and Andrews is right there (where I am).
I have somewhat of a problem with your thoughts on this.. 2. Fighter groups are manned 24/7 and they can scramble a flight of fighters in 10 minutes. Basically no matter where the plane is in the Continental United States, there is an Air Force base decently close. And with fighters flying at post-mach speeds, they can pretty much catch anything they want. 3. Shooting it down would not be hard at all. The aircraft is a sitting duck. Unlike a fighter to fighter dogfight, where the sidewinder missiles barely clip something, it would be likely to hit it directly, and you can launch several missiles within seconds. haha a stinger missile will take a wing off but a sidewinder missile won't?