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[General Zod]

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F-16s (at least some of them) have decoy "doghouses" built into their weapons pylons, and B-1B's have a pair on either side of the tail. Some electronic countermeasures pods carried by fighters have decoys built in as well. Not a new concept, but definitely not a widely-known one either. The F-35's decoys seem to be a bit more capable than previous options, at least for fighters.

F-35's Most Sinister Capability Are Towed Decoys That Unreel From Inside Its Stealthy Skin

These "little buddies" not only protect the jet, but they can be used creatively to goad the enemy into showing itself and dying as a result.

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And then there was the ADM-20 Quail "Flying Refrigerator" decoy that was launched from a B-52's bomb bay in the 60's and 70's, but advances in radar during that time took them from being convincing decoys to being easily identified and ignored.

McDonnell ADM-20 Quail

The Quail, originally designated the GAM-72, was an air-launched decoy missile carried by the B-52 strategic bomber. Designed to produce a radar images very similar to that of the B-52 and to fly at

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ADM-20 "Quail" Decoy Cruise Missle - Display

Serving "on display" at K.I. Sawyer is tail number 61-0414 The ADM-20 Quail (GAM-72) was a decoy missile, intended to confuse enemy radar. It was designed to be similar to the B-52 Stratofortress in terms of radar return and flight characteristics; however, since its design in the mid-to-late...

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[leVieux]

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Two things important to many Texans happened together in the mid-1970’s.

Earlier, Texans had to buy their beer from liquor stores.The state law changed to allow groceries to sell beer. Texas also switched to “liquor by the drink”, allowing restaurants to sell drinks to diners, bars to open, and icehouse visitors to drink their beer purchases on-site.

HEB Co. had just built its Corpus Christi ”HEB FutureMarket” @ Weber & Holly Road but didn’t sell beer for owners’ religious reasons.

MIller used Corpus Christi as a “test market” for its new light beer, “Miller Lite”. For some 3 weeks, Miller Lite didn’t move, sat unsold. Very few “Lites” sold; then, about the 4th week, there was a run on it. Miller Lite went from start to best selling beer in Texas in one month. One store had replaced an entire gondola aisle (“abarottes”) with giant stacks of cases of Miller Lite cans, where it sat for a brief but painful while.

Albertson’s, seeing an opportunity, opened a large new store with beer a few blocks down @ Weber Road & SPID, began offering beer, and Miller Lite in particular.

Rather than go to HEB for groceries, and then another place for beer, folks packed Albertson’s while the Butt’s watched their beautiful new store flounder.

Crisis time ! Charles Butt went to his Dad and reportedly said thet they’d have to sell beer, or lose the FutureMarket. Instead of deciding to sell the evil beer, Old Butt retired completely leaving Charles in charge of it all.

Next day, the beer trucks began unloading beer into the FutureMarket, then into all other HEB Stores.

All at once, Texas had its BEER, and it was from. their beloved HEB Stores.

I knew b/c I was there and SAW the developments!

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[msharley]

 

[leVieux]

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The very best concert ever:

One very cold winter’s day in ‘’sunny’’ Panama City Beach Florida, I got a phone call from Jimmy Christo: ‘’Doc, you & Lady come out to the Spinnaker Club about 6:00PM, up to the penthouse, I’ve got something special for Y’all.’’

Arrriving, we found a Chef tending a roaring fire, with a stack of nice ribeyes.

At the private bar was ‘’The Storyteller’’ Tom T Hall, in jeans, deck shoes & windbreaker, longneck in-one hand, guitar in the other.

Tom played his famous songs for just the 10 of us, circled about his barstool.

He even demonstrated his spectacular trick of flipping an OPEN longneck under his right arm, while playing guitar, then catching it in midair w/o spilling. Tom admitted that he had spilled thousands of beers while perfecting the maneuver.

What a great way to spend a cold, blustery Winter’s evening !

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[orbitup]

In the 1970s, North Korea ordered 1,000 Volvo cars from Sweden. The cars were shipped & delivered but North Korea just didn't bother paying & ignored the invoice. Till this day the bill remains unpaid making it the largest car theft in history.

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[General Zod]

Between 1977 and 1988, the US Air Force had a secret aggressor unit based at the Tonopah Test Range called the 4477th Test and Evaluation Squadron. This unit was equipped with MiG-17, MiG-19 and MiG-23 aircraft obtained by various and mostly still-classified means and flew them against USAF, US Navy and US Marine fighter pilots to train them to counter Warsaw Pact fighters and air-to-air tactics. The program ended in 1988 because upkeep on the aircraft was becoming too expensive.

 

[baboon]

100 fold chefs hats represent the 100 ways to cook eggs.

 

[General Zod]

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100 fold chefs hats represent the 100 ways to cook eggs.

Unless you're from the Gulf coast, then it's the 100 ways to prepare shrimp. "You can barbecue it, boil it, broil it, bake it, sautee it. There's uh, shrimp-kabobs, shrimp creole, shrimp gumbo. Pan fried, deep fried, stir-fried. There's pineapple shrimp, lemon shrimp, coconut shrimp, pepper shrimp, shrimp soup, shrimp stew, shrimp salad..."

 

[baboon]

Chefs that cook shrimp along the gulf coast wear pretty much anything other then a 100 pleat chefs toque.

 

[orbitup]

The Soviet Union had an idea of a "Combat Mole" with a nuclear device that would burrow into California and ignite it at the San Adreas Fault in an effort to start massive earthquakes and sink the state.

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[TxStetson]

The Soviet Union had an idea of a "Combat Mole" with a nuclear device that would burrow into California and ignite it at the San Adreas Fault in an effort to start massive earthquakes and sink the state.

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Who do we call and ask if this option is still available/

 

[orbitup]

Who do we call and ask if this option is still available/

We should set up a gofundme.

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[no2gates]

The Soviet Union had an idea of a "Combat Mole" with a nuclear device that would burrow into California and ignite it at the San Adreas Fault in an effort to start massive earthquakes and sink the state.

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Sounds like a similar plot like the James Bond movie "View to a Kill"

 

[BRD@66]

Sounds like a similar plot like the James Bond movie "View to a Kill"

& Lex Luthor's plan in one of the Superman movies.

 

[leVieux]

The Soviet Union had an idea of a "Combat Mole" with a nuclear device that would burrow into California and ignite it at the San Adreas Fault in an effort to start massive earthquakes and sink the state.

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I wonder if we could get them to try again ?

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[Greenzilla80]

The Soviet Union had an idea of a "Combat Mole" with a nuclear device that would burrow into California and ignite it at the San Adreas Fault in an effort to start massive earthquakes and sink the state.

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All they have to do is ask....we'll show them where to setup.

 

[1911'S 4 Me]

For those that don't it: hemorrhoids are a pain in the ass.

 

[Yall]

4chan's /pol/ board is directly responsible for three successful airstrikes on ISIS during the height of the Syrian conflict.

At the time, there was a reporter in Syria by the name/Twitter handle of Ivan Sidorenko. Sidorenko had Russia military contacts that he would pass this info on to.

/pol/'s Syria General thread was able to identify ISIS locations using landmarks and Google satellite images, passed it along, and a few weeks would go by until news would surface. On one occasion, a Russian military spokesman actually referenced online tips that lead to one of the airstrikes in a media interview.

 

[General Zod]

I was reminded of this by a comment in the Chinese balloon thread...

Early F-4 Phantoms had no internal gun - the whiz kids at the Pentagon had decided that air-to-air combat would be done exclusively with missiles, strafing ground targets was unnecessary with the bomb loads fighters were capable of carrying, and an aircraft-mounted gun system was therefore unnecessary. Numerous instances where Phantom pilots reported that "if they had only had a damn gun" they'd have had either an air-to-air kill or would have been better able to provide close air support soon showed the short-sightedness of that decision. Frequent successful use of the 20mm cannons on F-105s and F-100s further underscored the stupidity of deleting the Phantom's gun.

In 1967, the Air Force received its first F-4E Phantoms, the first model of F-4 with an internal 20mm vulcan cannon.

In 1972, Col JD Prewitt of the 366th Tactical Fighter Wing "Gunfighters" at DaNang Air Base had a brilliant idea. They had been tasked with interdicting North Vietnam's Easter offensive, in which massive amounts of material and troops were crossing the DMZ into the south, and Prewitt saw the need for a flexible, fast response to forward air controllers' calls for air strikes. And so, Chico the Gunfighter was born.

"Chico" was a special F-4E Phantom, armed with Mk20 Rockeye II cluster bombs, Sparrow air-to-air missiles in case of fighter interference, and in addition to the Phantom's internal 20mm Vulcan cannon Chico carried two additional SUU-23/A 20mm Vulcan gun pods on its outboard wing stations. In addition, Chico was untasked - meaning the uniquely armed F-4E would launch late in the afternoon waiting for a FAC to call in a high-value target to be eliminated. "Chico" was a FAC callsign that had fallen out of use a few years earlier. HQ USAF resurrected it and assigned it to Prewitt's project so the forward air controller would know special weapons were available and could specifically task Chico to the job. Between the three 20mm cannons and Rockeye cluster bombs, Chico the Gunfighter had a short but successfull career until the 366th moved to Thailand and was too far from the DMZ to effectively continue the mission.

 

[candcallen]

Half the world has never heard the Gospel.