I do not recall where I read this but it was in a serious, reliable work. In
the Gulf War one of the older British radars on one of the ships in
the gulf was able to pick up the F-117s as they went out. There were
more details given but this I do remember.
My favourite stealth story is the engineer telling the journalist to look at
the model kit of a hyperthetical Russian plane if he wanted to
know what the F-117 looked like. The Skunk Works must have wet
themselves the first time they saw that kit, but it shows that the designer
really knew his stuff.
Another thing that amuses me about the Americans is the names they give
operations (admitedly probably for political or PR reasons). The US had
'Operation Desert Storm', we had 'Operation Granby', the Falklands was
'Operation Corporate', would the US have had 'Operation Kick S**t out of the
Argies'? The American names do seem a bit childish sometimes, it most be the
politicos.
OK, rant over.
> The American names do seem a bit childish sometimes, it most be the
This is obvious flame bait! so don't.
> Another thing that amuses me about the Americans is the names they
Right. You have two layers here 1. Names refering to "actual troop locations
and movement" which might go by randomly assigned words, e.g. Operation COBRA
BLUE; and 2. Names referring to "what we're trying to accomplish by sending
our people waaaay over there", used by politicals and military, such as
Operation JUST CAUSE.
> The American names do seem a bit childish sometimes, it most be the
Aww, damn. And I was just working myself up to a good politically childish
response, too. Guess I'll turn my frustrations back to the problems at
work...
:-)
Mk
> At 09:33 AM 12/1/99 +0000, you wrote:
Actually the way it used to work was that operational code names were chosen
at random. (for security measures) They were al lot cooler hten. The first
major change we noticed to this policy was the Panama Invasion when someone
actually started taking an interest in naming the thing in some BS political
correctness maner. (Just Cause...I know it's lame.) and since then it's been
nothing but smarmy little code names which no doubt are approved for political
reason (porbbably at the highest level) but do nothing to whip up the fighting
spirit of the troops involved (ala Urgent Fury).
Or at least that's what I was told when I went through the SF Operations and
Intelligence course.
That is funny. One can think up some good names for campaigns.
I like Operation Just Because.
Jon
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> At 11:31 AM 12/1/99 -0500, you wrote:
That's actually that's what we called it. Instead of "Just Cause" it was "Just
Because" (we felt like it).
> Davis, Jonathan E (CRD) wrote:
> >Another thing that amuses me about the Americans is the names they
> Actually the way it used to work was that operational code names were
Well, there was the Comfy series - Comfy Challenge etc. AFAIK there was
never a Comfy Chair though.
> Alan E and Carmel J Brain wrote:
> Well, there was the Comfy series - Comfy Challenge etc. AFAIK there
No no, not the Comfy Chair.:)