SUBJECT-marine pilot with the local Air Traffic Control facility, all aircraft in the Persian Gulf AOR are required to give the Iranian Air Defense Radar (military) a ten minute 'heads up' if they will be transiting Iranian airspace. This is a common procedure for commercial aircraft and involves giving them your call sign, transporter code, type aircraft, and points of origin and destination. I just flew with a guy who overheard this conversation on the VHF Guard (emergency) frequency 121.5 MHz while flying from Europe to Dubai . It's too good not to pass along. The conversation went something like this.. Air Defense Radar: "Unknown aircraft at (location unknown), you are in Iranian airspace. Identify yourself". Aircraft: "This is a United States aircraft. I am in Iraqi airspace". Air Defense Radar: "You are in Iranian airspace. If you do not depart our airspace we will launch interceptor aircraft"! Aircraft pilot: "This is a United States Marine Corps F/A-18 fighter. Send'em up, I'll wait"! Air Defense Radar: no repsonse Semper Fi 
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