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To: Dog

It takes the Navy to clean up after the Air Force.


11 posted on 02/19/2008 6:11:50 PM PST by bmwcyle (I am the watchman on the tower sounding the alarm.)
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To: bmwcyle

LOLOL! BTTT


17 posted on 02/19/2008 6:20:12 PM PST by prairiebreeze ("Mental institution Michael...think about it". -- FDT 2007)
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To: bmwcyle
"It takes the Navy to clean up after the Air Force."

It takes the Navy to clean up after the Air Force's low bidder contractor. Never made it orbit, never entered into operations, so, not accepted.

There, as they say, fixed....

Could be some cool video, and maybe I will be able to collect a souvenir if the Navy's shot "misses". Make no mistake, hitting a object traveling 17K mph is no simple task.

20 posted on 02/19/2008 6:21:40 PM PST by ASOC (Tagline free for months and still happy (Oh, wait........))
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The Air Force could do this 22 years ago.

"The first and only ASM-135A launch against an actual target satellite took place on September 13, 1985, when F-15A 77-0084 of the 6512th Test Squadron stationed at Edwards AFB took off from Vandenberg AFB and zoom-climbed up to 80,000 feet and then launched the ASAT against the Solwind P78-1, a gamma ray spectroscopy satellite that had been launched in February of 1979. Both the first and second stages fired successfully, and the miniature kinetic kill vehicle separated and homed in on the satellite, destroying it upon impact.

34 posted on 02/19/2008 7:49:29 PM PST by magellan
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