{"id":37650,"date":"2013-09-19T13:44:12","date_gmt":"2013-09-19T17:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=37650"},"modified":"2013-09-19T14:10:20","modified_gmt":"2013-09-19T18:10:20","slug":"us-pilot-to-iranian-pilot-you-really-ought-to-go-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37650","title":{"rendered":"US pilot to Iranian pilot; “you really ought to go home”"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Washington Times<\/a> reports the story of an ancoounter between a US pilot and an Iranian jet that was closing in a US drone flying in international air space last Spring. The Aviatonist<\/a> recounts the background;<\/p>\n

The episode happened in March 2013, few months after a two Sukhoi Su-25 attack planes operated by the Pasdaran (informal name of the IRGC \u2013 the Army of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution) attempted to shoot down an American MQ-1 flying a routine surveillance flight in international airspace some 16 miles off Iran, the interception of the unmanned aircraft failed. After this attempted interception the Pentagon decided to escort the drones involved in ISR (intelligence surveillance reconnaissance) missions with fighter jets (either F-18 Hornets with the CVW 9 embarked on the USS John C. Stennis whose Carrier Strike Group is currently in the U.S. 5th Fleet area of responsibility or F-22 Raptors like those deployed to Al Dhafra in the UAE.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Washington Times; <\/p>\n

The Aviationist reports that in March a U.S. MQ-1 drone came close to being intercepted by an Iranian F-4 Phantom combat plane, but the Iranian aircraft stopped short after a warning by an American pilot.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe [the Raptor pilot] flew under their aircraft [the F-4s] to check out their weapons load without them knowing that he was there, and then pulled up on their left wing and then called them and said \u2018you really ought to go home,\u2019\u201d [Gen. Mark A. Welsh III, Air Force chief of staff] said.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

From Business Insider<\/a>;<\/p>\n

Anyway the U.S. pilot achieved to scare the Iranian pilots off and save the drone. A happy ending worthy of an action movie.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, at least the trips<\/del> troops are proving to our enemies that we aren’t to be fooled with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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