To: Parmenio
"How did they plan to protect the 747? The way the article desribes it it would seem difficult to protect the plane against air to air or gound to air missle attack."
Distance and Airpower. F-22 maybe?
16 posted on
03/22/2006 11:46:16 AM PST by
JeffersonRepublic.com
(There is no truth in the news, and no news in the truth.)
To: JeffersonRepublic.com
Maybe something a little less expensive and more disposable?
23 posted on
03/22/2006 12:19:02 PM PST by
phantomworker
(Democracy is a horribly inefficient form of government which tends to drift in the right direction.)
To: JeffersonRepublic.com
""How did they plan to protect the 747? The way the article desribes it it would seem difficult to protect the plane against air to air or gound to air missle attack." Distance and Airpower. F-22 maybe?"
The aircraft is designed to destroy missiles with a laser. It can defend itself.
26 posted on
03/22/2006 12:27:21 PM PST by
SENTINEL
(USMC GWI (MY GOD IS GOD, ROCKCHUCKER !!))
To: JeffersonRepublic.com
"How did they plan to protect the 747?"
Make it a stealth 747.
29 posted on
03/22/2006 12:40:49 PM PST by
EQAndyBuzz
(To Serve Man......It's a cookbook!)
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