{"id":20863,"date":"2013-10-30T19:10:49","date_gmt":"2013-10-30T23:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=20863"},"modified":"2013-10-30T19:10:49","modified_gmt":"2013-10-30T23:10:49","slug":"our-military-pilots-are-special","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=20863","title":{"rendered":"Our Military Pilots Are Special"},"content":{"rendered":"

On September 19th, The Aviationist<\/a> posted a story about an American<\/a> fighter pilot <\/a>who decided Iranian<\/a> pilots were getting too close to an unmanned American drone<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

\u201cHe [the Raptor pilot] flew under their aircraft [the F-4s<\/a>] to check out their weapons load without them knowing that he was there, and then pulled up on their left wing<\/a> and then called them and said \u2018you really ought to go home\u2019\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

If the episode went exactly as Welsh (Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Welsh) described it, it was something more similar to Maverick<\/a>\u2019s close encouter with Russian<\/a> Mig-28s in Top Gun movie<\/a> than a standard interception.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It would be interesting to know how the Raptor managed to remain stealth (did they use their radar? were they vectored by an AWACS? etc.) and why it was not the E-2 most probably providing Airborne Early Warning<\/a> in the area to broadcast the message to persuade the F-4 to pursuit the drone before the Iranian Phantoms and the U.S. Raptors got too close in a potentially dangerous and tense situation?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Anyway the U.S. pilot achieved to scare the Iranian pilots off and save the drone. A happy ending worthy of an action movie.<\/strong><\/p>\n

You have to love our military!<\/p>\n

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