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Originally posted by jimmy3way
Fact: The likelihood of a shoulder fired surface to air missile taking out a commercial airliner is around nil.
Think about it people: a shoulder fired missile has less than five pounds of high explosive in the warhead and is heat seeking.
So if you fire one at a jet liner on takeoff best case scenario you will toast one of the engines: commercial pilots are trained for this sort of shit. They'll turn the bird around and land it.
Guess what Osama: you just spent $50k on the black market to inconvenience 200 people.
Of course if you could manage to blow the wing off and ignite the wing fuel tanks...that'd be impressive.
But does anybody remember Africa this past year? A bunch of guys tried to use a missile to knock out an airliner and they couldn't even hit the damn thing.
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Inconvience 200 people, scare the holy hell out of a hundred million or so. Assuming it just hits an engine in your scenerio. Hmmm 50k spent, millions of people panicing, yeah that would not do 50k in harm.
Shit a single suicide bomber with c4 self detonating in a public area and only wounding Americans would also scare the holy fuck out of the rest of America.
Isnt terror the key part of terrorism?
BTW. settled around a 65 or so after watching video, may get worse if I can not find any disputing facts.