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Originally Posted by DETRoadster
Even less if they break the sound barrier.
I wonder what the protocols are for when they can and cant exceed the speed of sound. No breaking the sound barrier over populated areas, I think is a general rule the military follows. But does that go out the window in some sort of emergency? At top speed that's what, maybe a 7 or 8 minute flight? Scrambles my brain just thinking about it thats so fast!
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They can get scrambled and in Seattle airspace within 10 minutes. I remember sitting in my barracks room on JBLM watching a movie when suddenly a huge boom happened and my curtains were flying around. I seriously thought it was my surround sound (which I thought was weird), but I got a couple frantic phone calls asking if I heard it. Checked the news and apparently someone was in Obama's airspace and they scrambled the fighters--the entire Western side of Washington experienced the sonic booms. Amazing technology.