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Post by dude on Apr 7, 2015 5:58:01 GMT 9
The following is an extract from the testimony of Gen Ralph Eberhart, CG NORAD to the 9/11 Commission on June 17, 2004. In responding to a question from Thomas H. Kean he made an interesting observation about the F-106. The different airplanes he was talking about were the F-16s out of Andrews.
KEAN: Was there any consideration ever of ramming any of the planes?
EBERHART: Sir, we did not consider that because we were never in such a position to be able to do that. So that didn't cross our paths -- our idea.
During the Cold War, that was one of the things that we looked at in terms of enemy bombers. But I would say it was a much different airplane then, and it was an airplane where we had a very large tail hook that we would drop and theoretically we would drag that across the cockpit of the enemy bomber.
Now, I wouldn't want to be the one who does that, but if we thought that an enemy bomber had nuclear weapons on it and was coming to the U.S., it's probably a last-ditch maneuver.
These are much different airplanes today than those airplanes we were talking about during the Cold War, the F-106, et cetera.
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