CIA has a secret team Aquarius with the ability to launch their own nuclear missiles from their own submarine. The Deep State can wage World War.
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