Tuesday, April 03, 2007

uk pilots asked to mull kamikaze missions

uk pilots asked to mull kamikaze missionsfrom the sun: RAF Top Guns were stunned last night after being asked to think of being Kamikaze pilots in the war on terror.

Elite fliers were shocked into silence when a senior RAF chief said they should consider suicide missions as a last resort against terrorist targets.

Air Vice Marshal David Walker put forward the attacks — like those flown by desperate Japanese pilots in World War Two — as a "worst case scenario" should they run out of ammo or their weapons failed.

He asked aircrews at a conference: "Would you think it unreasonable if I ordered you to fly your aircraft into the ground in order to destroy a vehicle carrying a Taliban or al-Qaeda commander?"
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