Originally Posted by
ATC Watcher
We got the briefing from Eurocontrol Network manager last Saturday with the crisis routing scenario (in case Iran airspace is blocked ) . It is not the low level cruise missiles they are worried about it is the ballistic ones. Once someone starts using Scuds in the area you'd better be out of the way, and preferably BEFORE they start.
Yes, but do you really think the Russians are going to fire a theater ballistic missile in this zone? There are a variety of reasons they won't, to include the
PR ones.