
Very cool thread
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I found this a while back but didn't post it for some reason. Lots of good info in the FOIA reading room
. Gotta love those stories!
I need to get more video from the Road Runners' reunion edited and posted - lots of good stuff there. Turns out that the aircraft was fairly hard to see by U.S. radars, but the inlets were just great at showing up on the Soviet "Tall King" radars, so they knew when it was coming. They also were able to track it with the SA-2 missile radars because one of the countermeasures they credited with assisting with some of the misses was the "Blue Dog" which recorded the command instructions from the SA-2 and played them back to confuse the missiles. The part about the Tall King was from one of the speakers at the reunion and the part about the Blue Dog came from the CIA FOIA website
. Oh yeah, there's also some pretty good details of some of the other flights and operations, too.
The guy who was shot at by those missiles was BGen Dennis Sullivan - same guy as in the Mach 3 Gear Down video - and I have the video of him recounting that day as well. He still has that missile fragment
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I found this a while back but didn't post it for some reason. Lots of good info in the FOIA reading room

I need to get more video from the Road Runners' reunion edited and posted - lots of good stuff there. Turns out that the aircraft was fairly hard to see by U.S. radars, but the inlets were just great at showing up on the Soviet "Tall King" radars, so they knew when it was coming. They also were able to track it with the SA-2 missile radars because one of the countermeasures they credited with assisting with some of the misses was the "Blue Dog" which recorded the command instructions from the SA-2 and played them back to confuse the missiles. The part about the Tall King was from one of the speakers at the reunion and the part about the Blue Dog came from the CIA FOIA website

The guy who was shot at by those missiles was BGen Dennis Sullivan - same guy as in the Mach 3 Gear Down video - and I have the video of him recounting that day as well. He still has that missile fragment

No plane on Sunday, maybe be one come Monday...
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