Replying to a message of Adam Flinton to Bob.Ackley:

 AF> From: "Adam Flinton" 

 AF>  wrote in message
 AF> news:9075c5.654857{at}harborwebs.com...
 >> Replying to a message of Adam Flinton to All:
 >> 
 AF>>> From: "Adam Flinton" 
 >> 
 >> 
 >> 
 AF>>> "Tony Ingenoso" 
wrote in message
 AF>>> news:3e64310f{at}w3.nls.net...
 >>>> OK, we're going to officially protest this incident somehow...BFD. 
 >>>> As if
 AF>>> they care.
 >>>> 
 >> 
 AF>>> I'm curious as to how your gov can protest with no diplomatic
 AF>>> relations.
 >> 
 >>>> One protest they would respect FOR SURE is to somehow fit the spy
 AF> birds
 AF>>> with a few hardpoints and the Phoenix system, then lock them
 >>>> up if they decide to get rude.
 >>>> 
 >> 
 AF>>> great so then they just decide to wait for a US spy plane to get
 AF>>> into NK airspace & then they splash it.
 >> 
 >> In the late 1960's NK intercepted and shot down a US Navy EC-121
 >> operating
 AF> well
 >> outside of their airspace.  More recently China intercepted a US Navy
 >> EP3 operating outside of their airspace off Hainan Island, their
 >> hotshot MiG
 AF> pilot
 >> miscalculated his distance and collided with it - causing the forced
 AF> landing on
 >> a Chinese airfield.
 >> 

 AF> & the Soviets downed a Korean Airline 747.

 AF> Then again they also downed US aircraft over the middle of the soviet
 AF> union (powers) & or armenia (part of the USSR) & in a couple of other
 AF> places.

That's a little bit different, those aircraft were in Soviet airspace.
It's interesting that Matthias Rust managed to fly a single engine private
plane from Europe to Moscow and land it in Red Square - without even being
detected - let alone shot down - until just before landing.

 >> Then, of course, in 1968 there was the fracas with the USS Pueblo -
 >> which
 AF> they
 >> still have AFAIK.
 >> I was stationed at Kadena AB, Okinawa at the time, and the 18th
 >> Tactical Fighter Wing (F-4's) deployed from Kadena to Suwon AB, South
 >> Korea, THAT
 AF> DAY.
 >> All of it, including mechanics, tools and ground equipment; the only
 >> part
 AF> of
 >> the unit left on Okinawa was the first sergeant and two guys that
 >> happened
 AF> to
 >> be in the hospital.  It sure was convenient that SAC's 4252nd Strategic
 AF> Wing
 >> (also at Kadena) had a couple of dozen KC-135's handy.
 >> 

 AF> Yup & the Israeli's shot the hell out of the liberty & forced a US
 AF> spyplane to land at Lod.

I knew about the Liberty, I'd not heard about a *reconnaissance* aircraft
being forced down.

 AF> Did the US deploy squadrons of attack aircraft to israel's neighbors?

AAMOF when USS America scrambled fighters to go to Liberty's assistance -
from several hundred miles away - President Johnson ordered them to get
those planes back on the deck.

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