NATO air base receives inadvertent message warning of inbound missile

[Ooh-Rah]

Oopsie-daisy!

NATO air base in Germany receives false alert | Daily Mail Online

For eight panic-stricken moments the airmen of a US airbase in Germany thought that they were under attack when a message was sent warning of an incoming missile attack.

The terse bright red test message was supposed to be sent to one person only, but was instead sent to all wing personnel at NATO's Spangdahlem Air Base, 100 miles west of Frankfurt.

Labeled 'high severity' the warning read: 'MISSILE INBOUND. SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY!'

 

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YIKES!!

ETA: I was not far from there in the early '80's. We had a Nike Missle Battery that transitioned to a GLCM site. That message should never have even been possible to send. Times, and things have changed.

The system they use to pass along those messages now is used for everything from weather alerts to exercises. You get some chucklehead in the CP dorking around and the next thing you know the base is in panic mode. The default audio warning is loud and unmistakable so imagine an office with computer speakers blaring the warning siren. At Bagram the desktop IDF warning had the same tone as "excessive cross winds."

 

[Gunz]

The siren that's means either excessive crosswind or incoming missile blares, the retaliation launch go-codes are triggered by spilled coffee on a keyboard as USAF personnel scramble for cover under their desks, mutually assured destruction ensues and the Nash equilibrium is shattered as a theory.

 

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