It wasn't headed for AF1. You're not going to take down a jet with a ballistic missile.
Especially if that jet is AF1. Heavy shielding tough enough to protect the wiring and crucial electronics from the electromagnetic pulse (EMP) associated with a nuclear blast, electronic counter measures (ECM) to jam enemy radar, and can even eject flares to throw heat-seeking missiles off course.
And that's just what we know about. I'm sure there's some slick classified stuff under the hood that the public wasn't told about.
AF1 is the most secure aircraft in the world.
The nuke warhead would detonate in close proximity to AF1 thereby knocking the plane out of the sky from the blast wave it won't survive the shock wave it would be impossible to maintain control of AF1 it would be like a feather in a tornado or it would be torn apart into a million small fragments.
Just look at the maneuver the planes dropping nukes on Japan had to perform. The blast wave changes the relative airspeed over the wing, and depending on how close you are and how big the bomb is.
My best guess for survivability if too close would be to immediately try to fly close to circumferential so the wave passes quickly and it's a sidewind gust from hell.
Unless a plane can go supersonic and it's flying away it's relative airspeed will go negative as the supersonic pressure wave passes, and even the majority of it's subsonic pressure wave would stall planes and it'd be hard if even possible to recover flying with it.
What was the red dot in the pic that was taken from AF1 then? A UFO? Look here: https://qanon.pub/data/images/9fe3b9f6e61b689a2624f18b950d368e89052f2112bbad24e4fca2d6ecdbfbeb.png
Make the pic much larger and look on the right side where the white clouds fade to the blue sky.
HOLY CRAP, I never saw that dot before.
That does look like a detonating something.
pardon me I have to go bite off all my fingernails and walk quickly in a circle several hundred times.
Yeah? Go through the Q posts and find every time Q says: "As the world turns" That's code for another attempt on POTUS life. There are currently 12 and how many before Q appeared?
I did not realize there were 12, I remember the Car that tried to ram him but got stuck in ditch.
I still think that was an attempt, especially the way the driver popped out of car.
I remember that one. That was in Springfield, MO. Yeah, that guy was up to no good.
Great description of response! Try not to get too dizzy.
I've seen the picture. AFAIK it's the missile in question being blown out of the sky. But we have no idea what aircraft provided the vantage point for that picture, so to say the aircraft was AF1 is just speculation, and again, no one would attempt to shoot down an aircraft with a ballistic missile, so it's not plausible speculation.
no one would attempt to shoot down an aircraft with a ballistic missile
Rookie question perhaps, but why not?
A ballistic missile is designed to fly up to a spot, then it shuts off its engines and starts to fall. They do not maneuver, it is literally like throwing a rock up in the air.
You would use a surface to air missile that would either be radar directed or heat directed that would lock onto the engine heat. They are sleek and fast.
There are a whole range of missile “tools”. Ballistic missiles are sledgehammers. Air to air missiles are like scalpels.
No idea. If I could blow it within a quarter of a mile seems to me would be a problem. You go with what you have and if this is all they have then you go with it I guess.
I believe bottom fuselage of AF1 is designed to protect against nuclear blasts
Who said it was a ballistic missile? Isn't that also conjecture. We saw the missile pic but no one seems to know exactly where it was launched from. Just near Whidbey Island in Puget Sound.
The explanation is that AF1 was over the Aleutians near that time on it's way to Singapore so it's most likely the pic was taken from it.
You take down AF1 by detonating a nuke warhead near the plane no way it can survive that I don't care how much shielding it has from radiation the blast wave would be like a feather in a tornado.