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re: Hypothetical - a Russian jet with nukes is heading toward Los Angeles
Posted on 8/13/19 at 11:35 am to GetCocky11
Posted on 8/13/19 at 11:35 am to GetCocky11
Well if a Russian plane is only 15 minutes away from LA, we have bigger issues.
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Posted on 8/13/19 at 11:36 am to TH03
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You shoot it down. This is pretty dumb
This. Wtf kind of question is this?
Posted on 8/13/19 at 11:38 am to CaptainsWafer
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You shoot it down 10/10 times. It’s WAY in to your airspace if it’s 15 mins out from LA.
"Foreign country invades your airspace with nukes in an obvious act of aggression, but their president says 'not uh, we havent.' what do?"
Posted on 8/13/19 at 11:38 am to TDsngumbo
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LA
Beg him to go to San Fran instead?
Posted on 8/13/19 at 11:39 am to TDsngumbo
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It arrives in 15 minutes
The Russians have the KH-102 air launched cruise missile with an unclassified range of 4,500KM (roughly 2,430 nautical miles). So, they would have long since fired this missile and it likely would have already hit its target by then.
Posted on 8/13/19 at 11:40 am to TDsngumbo
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Putin is in LA for a conference with the American President.
Which President we talking about here. Here and now I say you blast the plane out of the sky. A few years back...grab your sunglasses and enjoy the fireworks.
Posted on 8/13/19 at 11:41 am to TDsngumbo
Are you really asking if we would shoot down a jet carrying a nuclear weapon heading for a city of a million people as a precaution?
Posted on 8/13/19 at 11:44 am to GetCocky11
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The odds of a nuke detonating due to a plane crash would be pretty low wouldn't it? The bomb wouldn't be armed.
The odds of getting a true nuclear explosion from a jet crashing with nukes onboard are zero, even if it were already armed. Can't go into detail here, but trust me when I say that's not how nukes work.
Posted on 8/13/19 at 11:46 am to TheDeathValley
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if a Russian plane is only 15 minutes away from LA, we have bigger issues.
Why? At the speeds aircraft fly, that's roughly 100 nautical miles away which is well outside of US territorial waters. They fly that close all the time and we fly that close to them too.
Posted on 8/13/19 at 11:49 am to TDsngumbo
Los Angeles. Let it fall.
Posted on 8/13/19 at 11:54 am to TDsngumbo
You call Jack fricking Bauer!!!
Posted on 8/13/19 at 12:00 pm to TDsngumbo
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Hypothetical - a Russian jet with nukes is heading toward Los Angeles
Let it through.
Posted on 8/13/19 at 12:00 pm to TDsngumbo
If he was in the city they were targeting, wouldn't he want us to shoot it down when the pilots dont respond? Or is he on some sort of deep cover suicide mission?
Posted on 8/13/19 at 12:05 pm to TDsngumbo
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with the American President
depends... which president?
Posted on 8/13/19 at 12:08 pm to TDsngumbo
Send up a refueling plane to meet it over the Pacific. That's a long flight.
Posted on 8/13/19 at 12:09 pm to TDsngumbo
You get Maverick up there to get inverted and conduct a little foreign relations.
Then you shoot them down.
Then you shoot them down.
Posted on 8/13/19 at 12:39 pm to celltech1981
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Don't they have supersonic missiles now?
This and yes. Nuclear powered with super high-end navigation systems capable of avoiding interception and running for extremely long periods of time. If you believe Putin that is.
Posted on 8/13/19 at 12:40 pm to TDsngumbo
Mail them a Thank You card for taking out LA
Posted on 8/14/19 at 8:54 am to FlyingTiger06
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Why? At the speeds aircraft fly, that's roughly 100 nautical miles away which is well outside of US territorial waters. They fly that close all the time and we fly that close to them too.
No fighter jet is flying from Russia to SoCal, so the only plausible scenario is Russia has a carrier off the US coast. With max fuel (not accounting for the heavy nuclear weapon) a MiG-29 has a range of just under 800 miles.
So to recap my original point, if a Russian Aircraft carrier is less than 1,000 miles of the Western seaboard, and then what we believe to a nuclear armed Russian fighter is now less than 100 miles away, we have bigger issues.
Edit: The 35 can fly ~1500 miles and cruise.
This post was edited on 8/14/19 at 8:56 am
Posted on 8/14/19 at 9:24 am to TDsngumbo
This almost exact scenario played out on designated survivor on Netflix's. The US hacked the auto pilot and turned the plan around and it went down in the pacific.
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