WAR HAS STARTED
Thomas Ruschak
Well, the damned fools have gone and done it...
War has started...
Thomas Ruschak
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"I'm too depressed for a .sig"
--- Tom
John W. Keating
> Well, the damned fools have gone and done it...
I hate to be a stickler for details, but the "damned fools" did it back on
2 August 1990.
> War has started...
Pray that it is a short one.
John Keating
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N. Richard Caldwell
>
> Well, the damned fools have gone and done it...
>
> War has started...
You're right but you're five months late in posting. The war started
in August.
"Don't drive too slowly." Richard Caldwell
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Marvin Bratt
ham...@waikato.ac.nz
>
> Well, the damned fools have gone and done it...
I think the only fool was Saddam. He saw the forces arrayed to kick him out,
and ignored them. All I can say is Good luck to those who are over there, and
that I, along with many others, consider the action fully justified, even if it
is 5 months late.
Perhaps it's good that we are no longer in Anzus, especially if we couldn't
count on YOUR help if there was trouble.
PS. Latest count of losses are...
1x f-15 (pilot missing)
1x R.A.F Tornado (pilot and navigator ejected and being rescued)
1x unknown plane from Saratoga
1x A4? from Free Kuwaiti Air Force
Couple of hundred Thomohawke (sp?) cruise missiles launched in the first
wave of the attack from the USS. Wisconsin and other allied ships.
PPS. The news correspondent said on the news that he watched a cruise missile
following the street at about 30m height, and blow up a building next to the
hotel he was staying at (Defense Ministry?) Pretty good pin point accuracy for
an untried weapon if you ask me.
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Don McGregor
>
>PPS. The news correspondent said on the news that he watched a cruise missile
>following the street at about 30m height, and blow up a building next to the
>hotel he was staying at (Defense Ministry?) Pretty good pin point accuracy for
>an untried weapon if you ask me.
>
geographical landmarks. The cruise uses as one of its guidance techniques
a radar altimiter that compares features on the ground to a stored
database. The highway probably made a nice canyon with buildings on
both sides that showed up perfectly. Or maybe the guys who mapped out
the mission thought that they'd give CNN some great footage.
Don McGregor |"You can fall for chains of silver/You can fall for
mcg...@prism.cs.orst.edu| chains of gold/You can fall for pretty strangers/
| And the promises they hold..."
John H. Kim
>In article <1991Jan18....@waikato.ac.nz> ham...@waikato.ac.nz writes:
>>
>>PPS. The news correspondent said on the news that he watched a cruise missile
>>following the street at about 30m height, and blow up a building next to the
>
> The cruise uses as one of its guidance techniques
> a radar altimiter that compares features on the ground to a stored
> database. The highway probably made a nice canyon with buildings on
> both sides that showed up perfectly.
If I'm not mistaken, once the Tomahawk reaches the location the
target is supposed to be at, it can switch to a 3-dimensional
shape recognition system (i.e. it can recognize the target from
nearly any angle) to seek out the target if it isn't where it's
supposed to be. It probably wasn't used to target a building but
the ability to target a mobile target is there (I won't hazard to
guess why/if it wasn't used against the mobile missile launchers).
Pretty amazing considering how fast the thing is moving and how
close it is to the ground. Great potential for spinoffs as shape
recognition software in non-military applications.
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Laura Hayes Burchard
>>PPS. The news correspondent said on the news that he watched a cruise missile
>>following the street at about 30m height, and blow up a building next to the
>>hotel he was staying at (Defense Ministry?) Pretty good pin point accuracy for
>>an untried weapon if you ask me.
> Probably using the eight-lane highway outside the hotel as one of its
> geographical landmarks. The cruise uses as one of its guidance techniques
> a radar altimiter that compares features on the ground to a stored
> database. The highway probably made a nice canyon with buildings on
> both sides that showed up perfectly. Or maybe the guys who mapped out
> the mission thought that they'd give CNN some great footage.
Actually, this was filmed by the BBC guy in the room. Unfortunately, the
BBC convoy out of Iraq had all its film taken, so we'll never see it...
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Laura Burchard lh...@virginia.edu lh...@virginia.bitnet #inc <std.disclaimer>
Admittedly, in absolute terms holding the military high ground will get you a
victory where holding the moral high ground plus sixty cents will get you a
cup of coffee. --William December Starr