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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 22:27:54 CST
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- From: Titivillus <T9AA@SDSUMUS.SDSTATE.EDU>
- Subject: Re: Further comments on Iraq ...
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- In-Reply-To: In reply to your message of TUE 26 JAN 1993 23:32:55 CST
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- > > > >uhh, I don't think so. By 'tracking', these units are in fact turning
- > > > >on their radar. With their radar turned on, it is a simple matter to
- > > > >push a button and launch missles. You don't launch missles until your
- > > > >radar is on. These planes are only acting in self-defense.
-
- > > No, you are not quite correct there. What you are talking about
- > > is having the radar assemblages spinning around, "let's see what
- > > is out there." What (if I heard correctly) happened was the radar
- > > was specifically looking at the planes, the radar held a track,
- > > and a little light and and a little buzzer started saying to the
- > > pilots "someone could fire a missile at you and you'd be dead."
-
- > Right. I guess that I phrased my sentences poorly. There is
- > passive and active tracking. Passive tracking happens all the time and
- > you don't even have to have a weapon system attached to your radar.
- > Active tracking is what happens immediately before a missle launch.
-
- Which is, unless I have been misinformed, what happened to the jet
- in question.
-
- > > > > (condensed) seeing a missile is paramount to being dead already
-
- > > > (condensed) what about the rest of the world? we spy on them,
- > > > so why don't they fire on us, or us on them?
-
-
- > > 1) a SR-71, for example, does not have weaponry. Few spy planes do,
- > > as the cameras are very bulky, carrying all those telephotos and
- > > all. As such, they cannot bomb the radar sites.
- > > And, by the way, a good jet can go about Mach3, maybe. Missiles
- > > go up to Mach 4, with *MUCH* better maneuverability. If you can
- > > eyeball a missile, you are dead. Simple as that.
-
- > And don't forget that there are serious rumors that the USAF has developed
- > a super top-secret very high-speed plane. They say that this plane can
- > go MACH 6. Yes, I said MACH 6! If such is the case, then they can just
- > outrun those missles.
-
- 1) Why would they want to do that? They already fly so high no SAM
- could hit them.
-
- 2) Why would we want to do that? Fast planes are notorious fuel-hogs
- and need constant maintainance. A spy satellite, compared to the
- time and energy necessary to design, build, train pilots for, train
- mechanics for, refuel and keep secure a new spyplane, is a deal.
-
- > > > -T.
- > > Dave
- > Jonathan
-
- From the Desk of Dave,
- Apparatchik of Dictionaries
- (and conspiracy theorist)
- (aka Larva, Trip Buster, Dave Zero, Didactic Dave)
- t9aa@sdsumus.sdstate.edu
-