9/11 Wargames and the Air Defense Response
There were at least five NORAD wargames being run on 9/11, including a live-fly hijacking exercise:
1) Northern Vigilance
2) Northern Guardian
3) Vigilant Guardian
4) Vigilant Warrior
5) Northern Denial
A related sixth drill on 9/11 was the NRO plane-into-building drill that has no known name, but this was not a NORAD exercise and didn't involve real aircraft as far as we know.
Vigilant Warrior was probably the live-fly hijacking exercise.
Here is my current thinking on the significance of the wargames:
The wargames, particularly the live-fly hijacking exercise, were an integral part of 9/11.
The issue of the wargames goes far beyond the issue of just confusing NORAD interceptors, but even that aspect of the wargames is important.
These are the ways the exercises fit into 9/11:
a) they are a perfect way of making sure normal interceptors on standby alert are too confused by the injected blips from the hijacking exercise to intercept the 9/11 jets headed for targets in a timely fashion,
b) they pulled away fighter jets from airbases into the exercises and therefore probably reduced the overall number of interceptors that were available on standby alert,
c) they give a perfect pretext for putting "hijacked" drone planes into the air,
d) they provide a mechanism for interceptors to shoot down a real passenger aircraft -- the pilots would think it is only a drone,
e) the planning of the live-fly exercise is very likely the mechanism by which moles in the military designed 9/11 in the first place.
The relationship between 9/11 and these wargames exercises is certainly far from clear. The wargames however clearly provided a means to inhibit the normal interceptor response without actually putting out a risky "stand-down" order.
The key question for me is whether the live-fly hijacking exercise on 9/11 involved the hijacked flights 11, 175, 77 and 93. I suspect this is the case, but there is no smoking gun for this yet.
Interestingly, Operation Northwoods, devised by the Pentagon back in the 1960's to provoke a Cuba invasion, involved hijacked planes, plane swapping and remote control drones.
Btw, this is an interesting point that deserves further research.
1) Northern Vigilance
2) Northern Guardian
3) Vigilant Guardian
4) Vigilant Warrior
5) Northern Denial
A related sixth drill on 9/11 was the NRO plane-into-building drill that has no known name, but this was not a NORAD exercise and didn't involve real aircraft as far as we know.
Vigilant Warrior was probably the live-fly hijacking exercise.
Here is my current thinking on the significance of the wargames:
The wargames, particularly the live-fly hijacking exercise, were an integral part of 9/11.
The issue of the wargames goes far beyond the issue of just confusing NORAD interceptors, but even that aspect of the wargames is important.
These are the ways the exercises fit into 9/11:
a) they are a perfect way of making sure normal interceptors on standby alert are too confused by the injected blips from the hijacking exercise to intercept the 9/11 jets headed for targets in a timely fashion,
b) they pulled away fighter jets from airbases into the exercises and therefore probably reduced the overall number of interceptors that were available on standby alert,
c) they give a perfect pretext for putting "hijacked" drone planes into the air,
d) they provide a mechanism for interceptors to shoot down a real passenger aircraft -- the pilots would think it is only a drone,
e) the planning of the live-fly exercise is very likely the mechanism by which moles in the military designed 9/11 in the first place.
The relationship between 9/11 and these wargames exercises is certainly far from clear. The wargames however clearly provided a means to inhibit the normal interceptor response without actually putting out a risky "stand-down" order.
The key question for me is whether the live-fly hijacking exercise on 9/11 involved the hijacked flights 11, 175, 77 and 93. I suspect this is the case, but there is no smoking gun for this yet.
Interestingly, Operation Northwoods, devised by the Pentagon back in the 1960's to provoke a Cuba invasion, involved hijacked planes, plane swapping and remote control drones.
Btw, this is an interesting point that deserves further research.
posted by spooked at 7:26 AM
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