On the surface your cringe is fairly well justified... an ICBM seems like the wrong weapon.
However, I can think of reasons that this might be exactly as Q implies:
A nuclear detonation somewhere "close" to AF1 would indeed bring it down. This could be spun as an assassination by NK.
ICBMs are MIRV. I suspect that our ICBMs have several possible RVs that they can be armed with, including anti-aircraft capabilities, and, also anti-ship, anti-sub, and even anti-ICBM. However, AF1 would have been well defended from most anti-aircraft type missile attacks, so I think it's possible this is what happened and the defensive capabilities of AF1 worked?
The fact is: the Whidbey Island launch DID happen while AF1 was in the air. It was either intended to do the president harm in some way, or it was fake to give the president cover. It is also possible that the launch that we saw was the RESPONSE to an attack on AF1? We don't REALLY know what it was.
Where did the ICBM go? You don't just launch a missile and it vanishes, it goes somewhere.
Sorry, this irks my background and training in the military to no end since I worked with these subs at one point.
But yeah, where did that missile go? Our Navy is just now doing tests on how to shoot down ICBM's and they have success when the missile is known and being tracked and controlled.
An F-15 crashed near Okinawa on June 10, 2018. (There are no coincidences.)
When I worked at MDC over 40 years ago, they were testing F-15s to go ballistic and to see if they were capable of intercepting missiles with their weapons systems.
One reason Q mentions Red October could be the climax when James Earl Jones, who I believe was NSA, instructs a Navy seaman to self-destruct the torpedo that was about to hit the Red October. Then Jones' character flashes his badge and says something like "You heard the torpedo hit the hull, and I was never here."
All that to say it's possible the white hats self-destructed the ICBM.
This would be interesting to know, but the specs of what AF1 is capable of being protected against are such highly kept secrets we would never know. We could only speculated and even then our best guesses would still be way off.
On the surface your cringe is fairly well justified... an ICBM seems like the wrong weapon.
However, I can think of reasons that this might be exactly as Q implies:
A nuclear detonation somewhere "close" to AF1 would indeed bring it down. This could be spun as an assassination by NK.
ICBMs are MIRV. I suspect that our ICBMs have several possible RVs that they can be armed with, including anti-aircraft capabilities, and, also anti-ship, anti-sub, and even anti-ICBM. However, AF1 would have been well defended from most anti-aircraft type missile attacks, so I think it's possible this is what happened and the defensive capabilities of AF1 worked?
The fact is: the Whidbey Island launch DID happen while AF1 was in the air. It was either intended to do the president harm in some way, or it was fake to give the president cover. It is also possible that the launch that we saw was the RESPONSE to an attack on AF1? We don't REALLY know what it was.
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Where did the ICBM go? You don't just launch a missile and it vanishes, it goes somewhere.
Sorry, this irks my background and training in the military to no end since I worked with these subs at one point.
But yeah, where did that missile go? Our Navy is just now doing tests on how to shoot down ICBM's and they have success when the missile is known and being tracked and controlled.
https://www.defensenews.com/naval/2020/11/17/us-navy-destroyer-shoots-down-an-icbm-in-milestone-test/#:~:text=%E2%80%9CWe%20have%20demonstrated%20that%20an,layered%20defense%20of%20the%20homeland.%E2%80%9D
An F-15 crashed near Okinawa on June 10, 2018. (There are no coincidences.) When I worked at MDC over 40 years ago, they were testing F-15s to go ballistic and to see if they were capable of intercepting missiles with their weapons systems.
And, I remember how those tests worked out in the end, do you?
One reason Q mentions Red October could be the climax when James Earl Jones, who I believe was NSA, instructs a Navy seaman to self-destruct the torpedo that was about to hit the Red October. Then Jones' character flashes his badge and says something like "You heard the torpedo hit the hull, and I was never here."
All that to say it's possible the white hats self-destructed the ICBM.
So, a scene in a movie dictated what happened?
That's like saying Godfather 3 is the reason the Vatican is corrupt. Try again.
It would have to be VERY close, as AF1 is hardened against EMP
EMP? What about the air pressure of a nuke blast anywhere near any aircraft? I fully admit I have no clue.
This would be interesting to know, but the specs of what AF1 is capable of being protected against are such highly kept secrets we would never know. We could only speculated and even then our best guesses would still be way off.
AF1 is a flying EMP proof Faraday Cage.... It is set up in a way that when hit with massive EMPs it is impervious....
We are talking about the New Trump one right, the secret one with super extra features, right??
A 747... "nuke proof".
HAHAHAHAHA!
Even our largest Aircraft Carriers aren't "nuke proof".
A nearby detonation of a nuclear warhead would destroy either one.
EMP Proof... I misspoke, Meant EMP Proof....
They say they use tesla tech to protect aircraft carriers so...
They have tech thats centuries ahead of what the public knows about...
Might want to expand your mind before laughing at others, as less than 250 years ago, they laughed at people when they spoke about electricity...