U.S. pilot scares off Iranians with ‘Top Gun’-worthy stunt: ‘You really ought to go home’ – Washington Times

In what only can be described as a scene out of Tom Cruise’s “Top Gun,” Gen. Mark A. Welsh III, Air Force chief of staff, describes how F-22 stealth jets scared off Iranian jets from a U.S. drone flying in international airspace. via U.S. pilot scares off Iranians with ‘Top Gun’-worthy stunt: ‘You really ought to go home’ – Washington Times. Click through to see what happened. I’ll be the in-cockpit tape of that gets out someday…and it will be cool.   Two other thoughts: are we now riding shotgun on drones (aren’t the drones so we don’t have to endanger pilots), and/or, was this bait to see what Iranian air intercept does? Related posts: BBC News – India: Army ‘mistook planets for spy drones’ That will happen. India’s army reportedly spent six months watching... 2013 Top Docs | FWTX.com Yours Truly shows up on this list, for the first... U.S. intelligence mining data from nine U.S. Internet companies in broad secret program – The Washington Post Thank goodness my blog’s not on this list! U.S. intelligence... Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.
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