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Re: My God, you are an idiot.
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Originally Posted by Cletus Miller
No doubt, but do we have any reason to believe that the interceptors were ramming the scuds? Or were they lauching missiles with much different operational ceilings?
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If this really happened, the most likely scenario (to me) is that NATO warplanes used air-to-air missiles to get the SCUDs in their ascent, rather than at their zenith (too high) or in their descent (too fast).
eta: DoD confirms it happened.
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Last edited by Tyrone Slothrop; 08-22-2011 at 07:47 PM..
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