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Originally Posted by SUBMAN1

If you go back to original statements, you were claiming that the Americans intended to shoot down the Airbus, and for what? Civilian casualties? That is the beef here. This is not what happened. You can find no proof to back up this claim either.

This is purely an anti American propaganda with no proof - just black propaganda.

-S

The word "intended" was not used. The word was "decided". Despite an ascending altitude, emitting Mode III squawk, being on the corridor ... etc, the Americans somehow managed to see it as hostile and made the decision to shoot the blip down. You will notice that the Sides seemed to have no problem seeing the situation for what it is either.

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Originally Posted by Kazuaki Shimazaki II

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Originally Posted by SUBMAN1

Read again - The same squawk used by an F-14 - hence the confusion. What you had was pure confusion, not a deliberate act to down an airliner. That is a sick thought you have.

-S

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Originally Posted by SUBMAN1

Read again - The same squawk used by an F-14 - hence the confusion. What you had was pure confusion, not a deliberate act to down an airliner. That is a sick thought you have. -S

Apparently, the idiots somehow managed to misplace their range gates. At their rate of competence, they might have placed the gates on one of their OWN aircraft and gotten a "Mode II" which they will then abscribe to the airliner...

How does Mode II->Military Aircraft go several further stages into ->Iranian->Hostile->F-14->F-14 that's armed for antiship attack->and is due to attack USS Vincennes->Deserves pre-emptive death?

Further, according to the 2nd Endorsement:

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b. (U) At least one (possibly two) interrogation from the Remote Control Indicator registered a Mode II 1100 IFF squawk. This probably inspired the F-14 classification since the ship had intelligence that Iranian F-14’s were employing Mode II code 1100. The Air Bus, however, was not squawking Mode II. When initially interrogating the target on the RCI, the IDS laid the IFF range gate on the Bandar Abbas area. Given the ducting that day, there is a possibility that the system detected the Mode II squawk of another aircraft. Because the range gate does not move with {p.5} {p.5-1988} the hooked target automatically, in order to continue interrogating Flight 655 the range gate had to be changed manually to track with the contact.

(U) Was it a critical error? No. Even if the Commanding Officer had been informed that there was no Mode II indication, that information alone has little significance. An attacker could easily be either squawking Mode III or no mode if believes it will camouflage his identity. On 18 April, Iranian F-4s that were threatening U.S. units did not squawk any mode throughout that day. Combined with other pieces of information, a Mode II indication may help a Commanding Officer confirm or disaffirm a conclusion, but when under threat it is not definitive but only one piece in the puzzle.

Sorry, but such a statement deserves only the largest size text.