Originally Posted by
BEagle
I still cannot understand how 4 pairs of eyes and 2 radars in a brace of Uncle Sam's superb Mud Hens couldn't see an aircraft as large as a Voyager in 10km+ visibility though.
Are you sure it was Mud Hens? Could have been C models with only one set of eyes each. The Voyager might have been in the radars notch, giving the pilots a blank scope, and remember that if the planes are on collision course, there would not be any line of sight (no movement) on the canopy/windscreen.
I dont know what avionics package those F-15 have, but if equipped with link-16 and interrogators, they should have had fairly good SA on the voyager (surveillance picture and mode 3 reply). Might be that they were busy doing visual maneuvers and did not glance at their screens once in a while...