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To: Lil'freeper

We're watching one of the "Future Weapons" shows. It's about the Javelin, the shoulder fired, fire and forget, anti-tank missle launcher. Next up is the gun the fires around a corner!


1,197 posted on 04/27/2006 5:44:36 PM PDT by SuziQ
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To: SuziQ
Teehee. Big'ol worked Javelin back in his day. One of my officemates currently works it. Big'ol and I just watched last night's episode (hurray TiVo) and there were preview clips of next week's episode. I got all excited and started doing my excited screech-and-hop-up-and-down thing. It's going to be soooooo great.

The show is interesting. In many ways its a big infomercial for various programs to get heightened visibility and hopefully more funding. The show goes light on certain operational capabilities for opsec reasons and leaves almost too much to the imagination of the armchair generals. But that's ok. It'll give the bad guys some shock and awe to contemplate.

The host amuses me. He's a first-class bad ***. He has ego. He has strut. He has an entourage. But he was excited like a child, "Look at this!! Woah! And look at that!!" I was also surprised at how soft spoken his is.

1,202 posted on 04/27/2006 6:02:43 PM PDT by Lil'freeper (You do not have the plug-in required to view this tagline.)
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