RAF Typhoons and Rapier being installed at key sites

How many of these people are privy to intelligence about likely threats, understand the likely threats and understand how to counter such threats?

I'm sure you know more about this than the MOD.

did i claim to know more about this than the MOD? no.

hence the correct me if im wrong bit...
and lets be honest the MOD are idiots id rather trust a Katie Price to organise the defence of the nation. the list of spectacular blunders theyve committed is huge, so i'll take their opinion with a pinch of salt and think of the wider implications of blowing up potentially 600 tonnes flying tank of steel and petrol on top of the nations capital...
besides im not saying its a bad idea to have defences in place im saying theyve gone into serious over kill on the matter.

Don't be a tool.

Care to list these 'spectacular blunders' they've made in operations?

hence the correct me if im wrong bit...
and lets be honest the MOD are idiots id rather trust a Katie Price to organise the defence of the nation. the list of spectacular blunders theyve committed is huge, so i'll take their opinion with a pinch of salt and think of the wider implications of blowing up potentially 600 tonnes flying tank of steel and petrol on top of the nations capital...
besides im not saying its a bad idea to have defences in place im saying theyve gone into serious over kill on the matter.

Nobody care to riposte my point?

I don't think you quite understand how small a plane is in relation to a city...and also how much smaller the pieces of the plane would be once hit by a AA missile system...

It is possible that...perhaps...1 house could be hit by an engine...'if' the engine happened to not be fractured/blown up. However, it would not 'shower' the city in debris, and any/most debris that falls will either be small or light enough to at most bounce off your roof.

Compare that to the damage caused by a plane, travelling extremely quickly (full throttle & in a dive), crashing in to a stadium with 80,000+ people...

Yeah, shooting down the plane is such a baaad idea

i dont think you understand how big the SAMs being used are ... these arent huge long range things thatll flatten a city block theyre small things designed to down a plane, not blow it into tiny little bits so with 600 tonnes of metal reigning down across a large area theyre hardly going to 'bounce off your roof' ... notice lockerbie? where one bit of debris from the lockerbie bombing hit.
id like to see you push the bottom to kill 400 odd people on a plane.. and besides i never said i was against the idea of shooting down a plane if it was making a bee line for the stadium im just stating what would happen if it were done and what can go wrong with the system anyway.

i dont think you understand how big the SAMs being used are ... these arent huge long range things thatll flatten a city block theyre small things designed to down a plane, not blow it into tiny little bits so with 600 tonnes of metal reigning down across a large area theyre hardly going to 'bounce off your roof' ... notice lockerbie? where one bit of debris from the lockerbie bombing hit.
id like to see you push the bottom to kill 400 odd people on a plane.. and besides i never said i was against the idea of shooting down a plane if it was making a bee line for the stadium im just stating what would happen if it were done and what can go wrong with the system anyway.

I would be suprised if they were...considering that there arn't really any SAM systems capable of flattening a city block anyway I know full well the size of the ones being used (rapiers, which generally have more than one launch tube due to the fact that it's rare for one missile to do the job effectivly).

And lockerbie was a completely seperate case with different dynamics/forces involved. Apart from a plane & an explosion, the two are not comparable.

It doesn't take rocket science to know that an aircraft destroyed at 33,000ft will spread it's debris over a far greater area than one destroyed at 1,500ft.

And besides, the principle behind putting the missiles in place - if indeed they do get put in place, them doing so for the exercise is only a suggestion - is that their presence acts as a deterrence, that people won't try to attack to that way if they won't succeed.

It seems trolls are getting smarter....

im not quite sure what your point is meant to be there? if its destroyed higher then more of london will be effected but to a lesser degree if its shot down loser than youre going to have smaller areas of london far more heavily damaged..?

im aware of why theyre there and the army trying to show their cojones to the world ... the fact remains though that the chances of a plane being hijacked and flown into the games are so miniscule that the massive defences that are being taken are completely out of proportion... these bombers arent idiots

no because its offensive how you trivialise lives like that ... and skew the numbers so horrifically as well.

It's not trivilising. It's being objective and not emotionally attached, which is what people doing the planning need to be.

I also think my numbers are pretty accurate rather than "skewed"...