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Originally Posted by RIJIMMY
might do you some good to visit Washington. You may appreciate this country a little more and the hard work and sacrifice that went into building it
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Thank you for your concern Jimmy, but I've been to Washington and other important places plenty of times both work and pleasure, just haven't visited the White House.
Have you been to Gettysburg and done the tour? I have. Howabout the Alamo? Beat you by about 10 years probably.
Now piss off.
TEHRAN — Iran’s defense minister on Friday confirmed that Iranian warplanes had fired shots at an American drone last week but said they had taken the action after the unmanned aircraft had entered Iranian airspace.
NYT article.
I'm pretty sure we get pissed off when unauthorized stuff enters our airspace.
AF goes absolutely berserk if you violate airspace over various ranges.
Nother interesting part:
It is unclear why Iranian officials had kept the episode a secret. It also is unclear, from the Iranian account, whether the warplanes had sought to down the drone and missed, or had fired warning shots to chase it away.
We don't shoot to kill on first pass either. Warning shots are pretty standard across the board, unless you're Bush Jr.
They're not exactly fast or super maneuverable.