on 9-11 did they get off any anti aircraft missles , did they turn off the radar ? raise the defcon status ? the phalanx anti aircraft gun 20000 rounds a min.didnt stop the plane ? the laser weapons ? The most heavily guarded military building in free world gets hit by civilian plane ? it don't sound posible . can anybody in military explain defense failure?
2007-03-06 12:56:47 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Military
Civilian aircraft fly by the Pentagon all day long going into Reagan. If they shot down ever flight that got near it, it would be a very noisy place indeed.
2007-03-06 13:14:52 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think the 9/11 report put it best: "It wasn't so much a failure of intelligence as it was a failure of imagination."
I was enlisted in the Corps during 9/11 and was a Staff Sergeant. I can honestly tell you that nobody ever thought that would happen. I had a friend that was stationed in the Pentagon and he (who was on the other side of the building) said it sounded like someone had been moving a safe and dropped it (and he meant the BIG safes that have to be moved by special hoists) on the floor right above his office and was totally taken aback when he found out what actually happened.
If, on 9/10/01, you would have said to me that terrorists were going to fly planes into buildings as a part of their jihad against the Great Satan, I would have told you that I also think Tom Clancy is a great novelist, but you need to lay off his books for a month or so.
What I can tell you is this: The military has a long memory and it adapts itself well when change comes about. Now imagination is being used to figure out how they might attack and what we can do to stop it. Did you know that they, the U.S. Government, employed people from Hollywood to come up with terrorist plots to attempt to consider any angle of attack?
One last note: it is easy to play Monday morning quarterback. What would you do now to prevent or look for another avenue of attack? I am not accusing you of being snooty about it, as I think that you are posting an honest question, but if you were in shock at what happened on 9/11, imagine how the military felt?
2007-03-06 21:23:29 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It turns out neither the white house or the pentagon had anti air weapon systems. Sure they might talk about it, but we already knew a small plane had hit the white house a couple of years before the attack. We also learned why. For some unknown reason, the pentagon never had a system in place to tell friend from foe. By the time people were notified to respond, the attack already happened on 9-11.
2007-03-06 21:19:50 · answer #3 · answered by gregory_dittman 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You seem horrendously misguided. The Pentagon isnt heavily defended by any means. The white house has stinger units, but the pentagon relies on Ground security personnel at Checkpoints(or did prior to 9-11).
The Threat assesment was VBIED not suicide planes
2007-03-06 21:04:31 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I do not believe that they have any defencive weapons stationed at the pentagon. Plus, it was a terrorist track, using civilian aircraft.
2007-03-06 21:06:02 · answer #5 · answered by heavy_cow 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
First of all the Pentagon did not have any defenive weapons, why would it, it is an office building. Do they now have weapons, most likely.
2007-03-06 21:06:45 · answer #6 · answered by Rich C 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
You don't understand this evidently. Which is it? Bush bombed the Pentagon or it was hit by a civilian plan that Bush had sent to do the job?
2007-03-06 21:04:53 · answer #7 · answered by united9198 7 · 0⤊ 4⤋
yes it was defcon delta
that s all i needed to hear to get my kids home.
ah lasers dude?..............pst I think he escaped again
2007-03-06 21:01:07 · answer #8 · answered by FOA 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
under the sun?
2007-03-06 21:04:46 · answer #9 · answered by Mexicanpersona 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋