Reply #60: It's a glitch, not an intentional thing.

[petgoat]

That's assuming what's told to the press is the truth. But if a glitch
in a single radar antenna can disrupt the entire region, it seems
that intentionally confusing one radar antenna can disrupt an entire
region.

"You can't make the entire system see something that's not there...."

Clearly it's not necessary to confuse the entire system. If one antenna
can disrupt the entire region, then two antennae in two different
regions can disrupt two regions. The Air Force only had something like
14 planes because some were sent to Iraq, some were sent to Iceland for
war games, and others were sent to Alaska and Northern Canada for war
games.

A little bit of confusion would go a long way. For instance, the Otis
F-15s scrambled for flight 11 were not told to go after 175. In
response (allegedly) to reports that flight 11 was heading for DC
the F16s scrambled from Andrews immediately flew out to sea.