The whole point of electronically hijacking the airliners on 911 was too force Bush to order the grounding of all domestic airliners making it easier for Putin to target Air Force One.
America's Doomsday Plan is to fight a nuclear war from the air. It moved it's command and control to the air knowing that shaped nuclear charges can takeout any bunker. The weak point of this strategy is communications. Communications can give away Air Force One's position. The Russian Woodpecker or similar array can track it and triangulate the position of the President by intercepting Air Force One's radio transmissions. Or it can directly image it using because the Woodpecker is a over the horizon radar. Jamming the communications forces Air Force One to up the wattage of their radio transmissions or to frequency jump. Both of which increase the chances of giving away Air Force One's position during a nuclear war.
The weight of this shaped nuclear charge is probably off by an order of magnitude. Which would make the weight of the bomb 31 pounds. Ted Taylor revealed that he had designed bombs weighing 20 pounds in the late 1960's - early 1970's (McPhee 109). A shaped 1 kiloton nuclear charge will create a 10ft diameter hole 1000 feet long in solid rock (McPhee 159). The Twin Towers were 1,368 feet tall and they were not solid. A single shaped nuclear charge would have been more than enough to take down a tower. Three bombs with a total weight of 60 to 90 pounds have the power to level the whole WTC complex. Bibliography: McPhee, John A. The Curve Of Binding Energy. Farrar, Straus And Giroux, 1973. |
On 911 all domestic airliners were grounded. They were forced to land because of the "hijackings." The "hijackings" are a great first move in a nuclear war scenario. Electronic hijacking will most likely be seen again in the opening moves of a nuclear war.
With all of the civilian airliners grounded imaging Air Force One and the E4-B's became a lot easier. Because it reduced the number of possible targets to a bare minimum.
The next time airliners are electronically hijacked and turned into weapons war planners will have to decide on whether to keep the planes in the air, using America's civilian airliners as human shields or see all the airliners turned into weapons.