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Striker
Ok hang on marra, can you not remember the Star Wars program? or the Pentagon's Strategic Defence Initiative to build a massive missile defence system that raised so much controversy during the Reagan and first Bush years? 130 billion dollars were poured into developing that system. It was designed to detect and intercept missiles fired from an unknown destination travelling at well over 10 times the speed of a commercial airliner, and to shoot them down in 15 minutes or less, before they reached their US targets. Its not just nukes man. was that all just bluffing and ripping off the US taxpayer?
Please tell me any of the 2nd paragraph in me previous post that you take umbrage with mate. I can't get me head round it. Would love for you to give me a reasonable explanation of why the inexperienced terrorist pilot would do this. Or explain away the sworn testimony of Senator Norman Mineta who was secretary of transport at the time, who was in the pentagon that day. I wonder why his testimony was omitted from the official report?
A missile defense system is not an anti-aircraft system. The end.
I'm pretty sure the terrorists didn't give a shit where they hit the pentagon. I'd also guess it's easier to level out and hit the side of a building than try and land on the roof.