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To: Terry L Smith

I said Naval Combat Systems, which includes missile systems. I did not mention avionics. Besides being an arrogant ass, you’re also lying.


81 posted on 04/06/2017 7:12:12 PM PDT by fatman6502002 ((The Team The Team The Team - Bo Schembechler circa 1969))
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To: fatman6502002

Dear fatman,

In my convoluted Viet vet assbackwards mind, “Combat ‘Systems’, whether they are being employed by, ‘a squid’, a ‘GIreen’, a ‘grunt’, or ‘a propellerhead’ like myself, in 2017-thumbtyping-times, the ONLY ‘system’ that is NOT ‘digitally-infected’, is the 1970 issue Colt M16, or the Smith and Wesson Model 15, that I was issued.

If it was onboard a ship, as the General Dynamics PHALANX ‘system’ was, or fired from a ship as the Standard RIM missile was, or loosed from an aircraft as the Sparrow III or AGM-88 was, there were electronics involved. If it were to be that ‘wondergun’ slung under an F-4 or an F-106, there was an optical sight system, slaved to the aircraft’s radar system. If it were that “electronics suite” installed on E-2c Hawkeyes, that is avionics, as is the command links between them and the carrier, or the fighter interdiction aircraft, or the hand-off to either E-8 JSTARS, or the E-3 AWACs.

Even in this 2017-year-of-the-thumbtyping, it is still the hand of the human, whether deomonstrated quirkiness of the millenials, or President Trump.


87 posted on 04/09/2017 4:20:45 AM PDT by Terry L Smith
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