I watched it climb and turn, disappearing into cloud and then reappearing again. In disbelief I double-checked the scale of the map in the AA Book of the Road. No doubt about it, these aircraft are well over 20 miles away, and that '10 must have been 30 miles out when I lost sight of him. The Airbus was only nine miles out, at 7500 feet on a clear day when the missiles were fired. I've never seen an RCA Aegis system advertised in Exchange and Mart but, even if I do, I don't think I'll buy one.
Old news is no news but reflective journalism improves with age.
If they can switch it off, many of them will, until they crash themselves into extinction. For me, the key point is NOT to let this stand as a reason to take a human out of the system. Aegis, is almost but not quite an opposite situation. Both the System AND its users failed. The failure was inevitable.