Pat Flannery wrote:

:Fred J. McCall wrote:
:
:Now, on to the actual events. The Vincennes had earlier seen an
:Iranian F-14 in the area that the airliner flight was in.
:
:Hold it. If they can't tell what a blip is, how did they know that this
articular blip was an F-14?

EW detection of coincident radar emissions, I'd expect.

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