My favorite part of the speech was when he slurred and sniffed he was willing to make a deal with Iran for peace & prosperity right after promising stiffer sanctions and blaming Obama for having made a bad deal with Iran. Originally Posted by matchingmole
The PLO "defending" refugee camps is as BS as saying the Nazis were defending Warsaw from the Soviets in 1944. Originally Posted by I B HankeringYou are the one that's fucking dumb! The Polish resistance fighters were relentlessly defending the Warsaw Ghetto from the vengeful Nazis, the PLO fighters for their decades-long struggle would have done exactly the same to defend their kinsfolk, moron!
You are the one that's fucking dumb! The Polish resistance fighters were relentlessly defending the Warsaw Ghetto from the vengeful Nazis, the PLO fighters for their decades-long struggle would have done exactly the same to defend their kinsfolk, moron! Originally Posted by andymarksmanI said nothing about the Polish defending a damn thing, you illiterate moron. The fact that you need to set up a straw man argument proves you're a moron.
Fascinating, the story behind two cases of mistaken identity from our resident military historian. I guess when you're having to react in seconds and relying on computers and radar, mistakes will be made from time to time.
I do not believe so. I believe "TN" might be shorthand for "tracking number"; hence, meaning "tracking numbers" are computer generated for each and every flight detected by the Aegis system -- regardless of whether they are military or civilian flights.
Currently I'm reading a book about the U.S.S. Laffey which had to deal with twenty-two kamikaze attacks in one battle. The author notes that once a Japanese kamikaze plane was within range of the ship's 20MM Oerlikon antiaircraft guns (about one mile), the gun crew had less than 15 seconds to destroy it before it destroyed the ship.
That was in the age of the propeller.
The response time in this age of the jet is significantly shorter; hence, the dependence on computers. The captain of the Vincennes had to make a split second decision to defend his ship, and he had no time to wait until he could see what logo the plane carried. His decision was based on a computer software glitch which transposed the tracking numbers.
I had to look this up. I remembered the incident when it was first mentioned here, but I also remembered the discussion from that time regarding the transponder codes. Initially, there were reports, American of course, that Iran had manipulated the airliner's transponder code to mimic a military aircraft sacrificing the lives of the planes' passengers to paint the U.S. in a bad light. But after reviewing these old ariticles, it's since been determined that the Aegis system was at fault. Had the Vincennes not already been at battle stations engaged in a hostile event, the Navy tech watching the monitors might have detected the glitch.
Regarding the Soviet take down of Korean flight 007 -- there was an American AWACS in the area, and the Soviets were tracking it. At some point, the Soviet trackers lost track of the American AWACS and picked-up the KAL 007. When KAL 007 meandered into restricted airspace, the Soviets thought they were responding to the American AWACS violating their airspace, and they responded with force. Originally Posted by I B Hankering