Posted on 10/04/2007 9:39:34 AM PDT by Parmenio
Plutonium is highly combustible. Turn it into plutonium-oxide soot drifting through the air, and it is no longer usable for bomb making
F-15 I (letter I as in Israeli variant of the regular US F-15 fighter)
World War III ??? A World War is a catasrophic series of escalating events culminating in massive military mobilizations and subsequent death and destruction. If Syria/Iran were to set off a nuke device in Israel we would wipe their miniscule presence off the face of the earth in a matter of minutes...Game Over - would that be WW III?
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Another brush with WW III was when the Mad Bomber of Kosovo ordered the British to attack the Russians at Pristina Airport and then took out the Chinese embassy.”
That was a scary time with old Wesley Clark, the bright one, in charge lead by Slick. And together they blew up the Christians in their “perfect war”.
It depends on what happens next, of course. Who does Israel hit, besides Syria? Does Iran then pop in with its own nukes, directed at its various enemies?
And what does, say, Egypt do? Turkey?
I can’t imagine that the consequences would be that an exchange between Israel and Syria would result in nothing — the Israelis would undoubtedly hit other targets as well, if only to pre-empt.
Everything you state is possible.
That said, I still think the headline about just missing WWIII is ridiculous based on the participants alone.
who says there isn't?
What the really funny part of this is the fact that the engineers, technicians and support staff may have been killed.
You really can't just pull a tech or an engineer off the shelf.
ahhh, so funny. (wiping tear from eyes)... I've said it once before, but I repeat. " I would pay money to be a fly on the wall in the after action report."
ROTFLMAO
That’s the F-15 EYE the I is the Israeli varient.
Different electronics package...
There is another reason for this strike force bombing. To let them know where the line is that they should not cross.
So they used the same code of the day as we were. The transponders must be switched off after everybody knows each other. The swept freq, power, pulses, wavelengths that are ECM would blind the transponder anyway. Only a handful of people know what the code is. This was a successful operation. I give it five ***** for secrecy.
ping for later read
“Infact it’s closer to Iraq than it is to Turkey.
Anyone have a bead on where the target area actaully was?”
That was my thought. Dayr as Zawr (As Suwar) is also on the road to Mosul. What if Iraq was going to be the actual target?
It’s kind of hard to have a “fun” discussion of Electronic Warfare in an unclassified environment. Although I have been out for 14 years I get a little nervous about describing exactly what techniques were used against me, what effect it had on my equipment, why it was or was not successful.
The best unclassified book I ever read about the subject was called, “The Enemy is Listening” written by Aileen Clayton who was a German linguist and intercept operator during WWII. She covers a lot so subjects outside of that specific field that are very interesting and the foundation of everything else that happened in the field since.
I am still fascinated by the subject and enjoy trying to read between the lines.
Having your radar system suddenly go “dark” is in itself a warning of impending attack. To have your radar defenses hacked and manipulated, keeps you in the warm fuzzy zone (that all is well). By the time you learn of the raid, the attackers are gone, and you are left wondering just what happened. Sounds like a great weapons system.
Thanks for the ping. BMFLR.
That's some cool trivia.
Curious that no one has connected this dot.
Southack has connected that dot...
FYI, there have been at least two nuclear weapons used in combat since WW2. During the Sino-Soviet border wars (WW2-1993) had two events recorded on seismographs in the West that could only have been large tactical nukes or small strategic ones.
***First I’ve heard of this. The first nuclear exchange came with a whimper rather than a bang.
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