[LonePalm]

Good story. If I were going to do something like this that is pretty much the way I would go about it.

I will not comment further other than a reminder of what I have said before, "Nobody, and I mean NOBODY, does Electronic Warfare (EW) and Information Warfare (IW) like the United States."

I started reading my father's copy of Naval Institute Proceedings as a boy. I was a subscriber myself for 25 years. I gave it up about the time I gave up all magazines.

The first book from the Naval Institute Press I read was his copy of United States Destroyer Operations in World War II. I highly recommend it.

I still have my pre-publication copy of Tom Clancy's Hunt for Red October. In it he mentioned an Air Force system, LANTIRN (Low Altitude Navigation and Targeting Infrared for Night). I wanted to know more so I walked down the hall to talk to an AF colleague. I asked, "What can you tell me about LANTIRN?" Without moving his head his eyes looked up at me and he asked very coldly, "Where did you hear that word?" We went into the SCIF and had an interesting chat.

I showed him the passage in the book. He read it muttering, "Crap, crap, oh crap." It turns out he had been part of the Avionics Operational Test team for LANTIRN.

WWG1WGA

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

[meyer]

Fascinating story regarding LANTIRN. I would guess that Clancy changed the wording of the final version of the book to exclude that reference. :)

[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

“Nobody, and I mean NOBODY, does Electronic Warfare (EW) and Information Warfare (IW) like the United States.”

Lone Palm. This is no longer the case. We have been overtaken by the Chinese and the Russians. It would be a mistake to accept this as true.

(If you are correct, why talk about it on an open thread?)

AFQ

[bitt]

good story.

“Where did you hear that word?”

I can almost see the steely eyes...