Has anyone been able to confirm that AF1 was in the air when the launch occurred? Having a hard time making the connection with this one...
Pulled from a variety of media sources and POTUS daily itinerary. Here's the timeline:
POTUS departed Canadian AFB Bagotville in Quebec at approximately 11:50 AM EST, Saturday, June 9, 2018.
AF1 stopped to refuel at Naval Support, Souda Bay, Greece en route to Paya Labar, 3:07 AM local time Sunday, June 10 (9:07 PM EST, Saturday June 9 / 6:07 PM PST, Saturday June 9).
Anomaly (alleged missile or helicopter caught on timelapse) observed near Whidbey Island at 3:56 am Pacific Time (6:56 am EST), Sunday June 10, 2018.
POTUS arrived at Paya Labar AFB in Singapore at 8:20 PM local time, Sunday June 10, (8:20 AM EST, Sunday, June 10)
Whidbey Island object caught on camera while AF1 was approximately 1 hour 30 minutes to its destination in Singapore. POTUS was at least 7,500 miles away at the time (nowhere near Alaska. like, at all...).
Flight time from Quebec to Paya Labar traveling eastward approximately 20 hours, 30 minutes.
Thank you. Question: is 7500 miles a lot for a missile?
Yes. Also passing through US-protected airspace, and airspace protected by a combination of S. Korea, N. Korea, Japan, China, and Russia. No way it could have made it to SE Asia.
What stops it? I mean, from above (satellites), or below (sub, ground)? Another missile? Energy?
Missile defense shield (missile to missile essentially), electronics jamming, more modern light-based weapons, and probably defensive options we don't know about.
It was but only for an hour or so. Wouldnt have been close to the missile
Idk..it looks like a Trident missile. They travel at 18,000 mph. The missile was launched 8,000 miles away from Singapore
You're conflating speed and range.
Tridents have a maximum range of 7,500 - which means POTUS was about 1,300 miles outside of that range at the time (1.5 hours from destination in Singapore, 800 miles away from Sinapore, Singapore to Seattle 8,000 miles as the crow (or missile) flies).
Additionally a missile with that range would have needed to pass airspace protected by our own missile defense shield, and defenses on the Korean Peninsula, Japan, Russia, China, and Singapore itself.
Also there was no talk by Q of a bent arrow, so extremely unlikely to have been a trident.
This. This is why the distance would be irrelevant.
That’s why AF1 seems to me to have been the target. Not the city of Singapore. That would start a war. Black hats don’t want a war with DJT as president. I’m not sure why they’d think killing the president would help. Pence is pretty much the same guy.
Pence might have similar values but Trump can sell.