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Old 07-18-2014, 11:53 AM
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Originally Posted by raketenjagdpanzer View Post
And do what with that information? Radio "Oh god we're about to be hit by a missile"? Evasion is out of the question. Forcing a missile to overshoot requires putting huge amounts of energy into a turn, dive, pitch up etc. Energy commercial jets just do not have.
It all depends on the pilot and on how much warning he has and what the missile used is - its one thing to get out of the range of a short range missile its another to avoid what they used.
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