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2005-01-29 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

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Posted by trailing wife 2005-01-29 2:29:27 AM|| || Front Page|| [8 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I'm not so sure of that, the mullahs would be screaming at the top of their lungs to anyone who would listen about systematic airspace intrusion by the great satan.
SEAL teams running around in the dark with radiation detectors seems likely though.

Posted by JerseyMike 2005-01-29 10:25:34 AM|| 2005-01-29 10:25:34 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 ...This isn't all that unusual - it's an old and honored method of figuring out exactly what the bad guys are capable of. It doesn't necessarily mean we're going in after them - at least not at that time. But let's face it, it doesn't hurt to know.
Also, the Mullahs might very well want to scream bloody murder about it, much like Khrushchev did with the early U2 flights, but not dare to lest their powerlessness be made clear.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2005-01-29 11:13:37 AM|| 2005-01-29 11:13:37 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 I'm sure there are reconnaissance flights taking place over Iran. It would be foolish of the United States if there weren't. I'd bet, too, that most of those flights are unmanned drones flying at altitudes either too high or too low for the Iranians to do anything about. There's a good possibility that the Iranians aren't even able to detect and track most of the flights. I'm sure the problems between the United States and the Russians about selling the Syrians SA-18s was because we're doing the same thing in Syria. As for "boots on the ground", only those actually engaged in such operations and their immediate controllers really know what's going on. The "expert" in Washington can say what he wishes, but it's all conjecture. We HAVE the capability - it's existed since Korea. We used it extensively in Vietnam and elsewhere. Whether we're exercising that capability in this respect is knowledge well above my (former) pay grade.

Posted by Old Patriot 2005-01-29 5:11:01 PM|| [http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2005-01-29 5:11:01 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 According to the article, the Iranians would have to know about this, since the whole point is to get them to switch on their air-defense systems, so that we can plot, map and understand them. Flying drones/aircraft that can't be detected defeats that purpose.

Of course, we could be doing both :-)

Posted by Steve White 2005-01-29 5:26:49 PM|| 2005-01-29 5:26:49 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 radar-detectable chafe clouds distributed at periodic levels and times from undetected drones would REALLY F*&K with them heh heh

Posted by Frank G 2005-01-29 5:32:19 PM|| 2005-01-29 5:32:19 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Not to toot my own horn, but you might want to check the funny little item on Iranian UFO's I posted in last week's Nuggets from Pravda.

If my headache lets up today, I might do another one...

Posted by Phil Fraering 2005-01-29 5:45:04 PM|| [http://newsfromthefridge.typepad.com] 2005-01-29 5:45:04 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 And I just checked... Pravda is boring this week. Sorry.

Posted by Phil Fraering 2005-01-29 5:53:00 PM|| [http://newsfromthefridge.typepad.com] 2005-01-29 5:53:00 PM|| Front Page Top

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