To: Defender2
Well, I'll be darned. I didn't know that.
44 posted on
02/11/2004 12:15:55 PM PST by
CholeraJoe
("Talk tough and build Star Wars." Ronald Reagan)
To: CholeraJoe
Yes, The F-102 as the F-101B/F and F-106A/B were equipped with an Infrared seeker device which could be tuned so sensitive as to track a lit cigarette from over 10,000 ft.
They F-102s'(during Operation Stovepipe) would go out at night and use their IR seekers finding enemy encampments at night sometimes using their rockets and IR homing missiles against them.
45 posted on
02/11/2004 12:21:17 PM PST by
Defender2
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