Surface-to-air missiles may be put on London flats during Olympics - Polidicks

[QUOTE=GunFox;35766017]Does the IRA even have a history of suicide bombing?[/QUOTE] Does it have to be suicide bombing? Last time I checked, the last bombing at a olympic games was in Atlanta and that was not a suicide bomb. [QUOTE=Jsm;35766028]Or you know Al Qaeda and their various offspring that just [B]love[/B] attacking the UK.[/QUOTE] They do have to manage to get into the country or close enough to it to do anything. The IRA can just get in a car and go.

[QUOTE=Crimor;35764991]Wait, they do know that when you hit a plane with a missile it doesn't magically disappear, right? It creates a giant fucking tube of burning death, or a fuck ton of shrapnel.[/QUOTE] I doubt Debris raining from the sky from a full 747 would kill half the number of people that died in the WTC attacks, and that's counting the full 747 Four to six hundred people dead is a better alternative to 601 and more dead, and it just is

[QUOTE=BMCHa;35762744]I know this is a joke post but you can't even do that with these, being beam-riding.[/QUOTE] I don't think there's even a man-portable projectile [I]capable[/I] of looping and then scoring a direct hit on a moving target since there's absolutely no need for anything you got within looping range to not just, you know, detonate when in proximity. Clearly we need to have some sort of impractical missile shot program to prepare for a potential Combine invasion.

[QUOTE=Crimor;35765452]I was just pointing out the windows as a minor thing, the main thing will be that if they're using a plane, they'll most likely have it full fucking throttle towards that place, which makes it keep flying for a good while, turning it either into a shrapnel bomb, a firebomb, or just a great big metal tube saying fuck you to whatever it hits. A smarter idea to be honest would just be to up the in plane security while the games are playing, like having armed guards on the plane itself.[/QUOTE] But are all countries going to participate in putting armed guards on planes? As for it flying for a long while after getting hit? I wouldn't be so sure. The fuel tanks would likely explode, which in addition to the missile explosion would render the plane as capable of flight as a sack of potatoes It's better to plan and protect a stadium where thousands of people will be in one place, than to just say "Oh well if we shoot it down now it's going to land on Mrs. Smith's flower patch so we'll just let it hit its target"

[QUOTE=Crimor;35765348]A portable sam site won't have that long of a range, 50 km at best probably. And if they choose to go the flak route to make it easier to make an effective curtain without blowing out windows when firing, the range is a few km at best.[/QUOTE] I don't think this is the only defence they have, it's likely one of the very last lines of defence. They're already putting one of the new type 45 air defence ships in the river Thames during the games, which has a range of about 400km.

[QUOTE=Docc;35768544]They're already putting one of the new type 45 air defence ships in the river Thames during the games, which has a range of about 400km.[/QUOTE] You got a source on that? I was about to ask why they didn't do that. Would be interesting if they did. All the people here claiming there is no threat against the UK during the olympics, don't you think the British Security Services might have a slightly better idea that you about what the threat might be? I have no idea myself, but I'd be willing to give them the benefit of the doubt for the moment.

i wanna find a way to take control of one of them so i can shoot down birds fucking shit on my window for the last time

[QUOTE=smurfy;35750199]Why would a terrorist try to attack?[/QUOTE] Their ideals.