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To: barf
Ahh. Please note that your reference says "The Air Training Command has equipped some of its aircraft". I suppose someone thought it was a good idea to highlight the area a student punched out in. I don't believe they still do that. I'll find out for you tommorrow. As for what is in my seat, the ACES II, (which is the same seat flown in almost every USAF combat aircraft today and for decades) I challange you to find chaff anywhere near it. Nice classless comment about stupid pilots though, which brings me to "painting" objects with chaff.

Chaff is to radars what a smoke screen is to the human eyeball. It is not easy to control, it obscures whatever it surrounds and prohibits any useful observation of what it is used around. You have correctly stated that it is made up of fine, hair like particles coated with radar reflective material. Those fine particles disperse in a cloud and drift with the wind. Chaff clouds are completely at the mercy of the wind, and any chaff used anywhere near TWA800 would have shown up as a large 17-19 knot track (the speed of the wind at the altitude TWA 800 blew up). You cannot "paint" something with chaff any more than you can "paint" something with smoke. A kinetic kill vehicle is designed to be used above 100,000 feet. It is an incredibly complex device that has undergone years of testing. To mark its impact with a cloud of chaff would be like marking a point of brain surgery with a paint bomb. You would obliterate any useful info from the impact, and as I've previously stated, both the warhead and the target are already being tracked by other sensors.

362 posted on 12/17/2001 9:36:53 PM PST by Rokke
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To: Rokke
Did you go to school to learn how to write with stupid logic? If I screw up, I will gladly take my lumps and admit it. When you screw up, you blame me. How does that calibrate? You are reinforcing my claim that you are truly funny. You asked me to give only ONE example and I gave you one example and you can't admit that I was correct. What I wrote is too tangent to the norm therefore my truth was a lie. What nonsense! You and I agreed with the double radar return and you claim that the radar was not working correctly. Yeah! Right! Tell me what time that you are in the air and I will head for the nearest bomb shelter. You are a real case. I admire that. Watching the nuts in action does brighten my day.
364 posted on 12/17/2001 10:18:19 PM PST by barf
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