wonder if the stroke will be progressive?
Posted on 05/20/2015 9:33:27 AM PDT by Rio
I have searched for solid news references to validate the claim I repeated, and cannot find any official confirmation that Russians actually did disable the USS Donald Cook ship with an aircraft EW EMP device.
I retract my claim due to insufficient evidence it really took place.
Please see my post to redress retracting the claim that a Russian aircraft EW EMP disabled the USS Donald Cook last year. I cannot find a credible news source that verified it happened.
wonder if the stroke will be progressive?
My memory tells me a full external fuel tank was 2000 lbs plus the weight of the tank, which may have been 200 lbs.
It was so long ago...:)
Did they have a larger tank on the centerline? I was in during the Seventies, and recall they were 2000+ lbs.
LOL...if that was the case, can you imagine the Navy people just leaving it up to the engineers assuming they would design them to work similarly to the current ones, then when they go to test, the engineers tell them
ENGINEER: “Sorry...you can’t have full external fuel tanks to get shot off with this thing...you have to empty them out.”
PILOT: “What? What the Hell is this thing good for, then?”
ENGINEER: “Well, we don’t have all that dirty, nasty, steam, and this thing, with a gazillion electron volts generates one awesome pulse! And you can fling bags of garbage soooo far in front of the the ship that the Russian trawlers can’t get to them before they sink!”
LOL, or they DON’T tell them, and the tanks get ripped off on launch!
Pabianice, where did you get that info from? I just have a hard time believing that you can’t launch with full external tanks. I know the state of American engineering is degraded, but I can’t believe they would allow THAT compromise. It sounds crazy.
Ah. I just went and did a search, they simply have to adjust the algorithm of the software that controls it...didn’t sound like a bit deal in a couple of articles.
That makes sense. If it was standard steam, they would probably have to make physical changes to the infrastructure, but with this, they probably just moderate the pulse in a specific way via the software to decrease the initial shear force.
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