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December 12th 2008     

And Speaking Of Jim …

Posted by: Laer at 02:24 pm

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at-tipee extraordinaire Jim, true to his form of finding the most interesting stuff wherevre it might be lurking, just sent over this:

OUR GOOD GUYS, AT 7:52 P.M. ET: The great Michael Ledeen, who has been more right on Iran than just about anyone else, passes on this gem.  A must read:

One of my regular correspondents, a serious chap, sends the following:

According to a Marine Pilot:

In addition to communicating with the local Air Traffic Control facility, all aircraft in the Persian Gulf AOR are required to give the Iranian Air Defense Radar (military) a ten minute ‘heads up’ if they will be transiting Iranian airspace.

This is a common procedure for commercial aircraft and involves giving them your call sign, transponder code, type aircraft, and points of origin and destination.

I just flew with a guy who overheard this conversation on the VHF Guard (emergency) frequency 121.5 MHz while flying from Europe to Dubai. It’s too good not to pass along. The conversation went something like this…

Iranian Air Defense Radar: ‘Unknown aircraft at (location unknown), you are in Iranian airspace. Identify yourself.’

Aircraft: ‘This is a United States aircraft. I am in Iraqi airspace.’

Air Defense Radar: ‘ You are in Iranian airspace. If you do not depart our airspace we will launch interceptor aircraft!’

Aircraft: ‘This is a United States Marine Corps FA-18 fighter. Send ‘em up, I’ll wait!’

Air Defense Radar: (no response … total silence)

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  1. 11B40

    December 12th, 2008 at 3:18 pm

    Greetings:As an ex-infantryman with a natural aversion to people who bring a proper bed with them when they go to war, I have to admit that there is something about those flyboys.  When they get it right, they get it totally right.  I used to like to call them Mr. Death’s Blue-eyed Wonderboys. 

  2. Gila

    December 13th, 2008 at 2:02 pm

    LOL!

  3. Ymarsakar

    December 15th, 2008 at 2:39 pm

    <B>11B40</b>
     
     
    They always said the flyboys had great big brass ones.

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