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Any links for that statement ? all I ever heard about was deceit by dropping chaff

He may have confused "the battle of the beams" with radar jamming.

bitrex wrote in news:tS7VD.154866$ snipped-for-privacy@fx39.iad:

Bullshit. Saddam's tanks were ALL russian. He had T72s

We penetrated his bubble turrets like butter.

Before hacking the US he had no reactive armor either.

Our shit very likely destroys a t92 as well.

When I was a kid we could still buy WWII surplus radar jammers. One cool one used a 931A photomultiplier (run at high voltage, in the dark) as a random pulse generator. The whole chassis cost $6, as I recall.

An entire under-wing radar pod was $70. I couldn't afford that.

Junk shop in Bradford (Yorkshire, UK) had shelves full that sort of kit in the 1950's. Command sets at 0.1 ukp, various radar kit with 3BP1 and longer persistence equivalents. Made our first scopes and other gear from that and it laid the foundations of a life time in electronics and computing. No distraction like internet, multichannel tv full of rubbish and "social media" to waste the kids time, so they made their own amusement. Scrap metal yards were full of it as well, so much really exotic and expensive kit just dumped for the hackers of the day to play with. Halcyon days indeed...

Chris

The US government, probably UK too, made a deliberate decision to dump tons of military electronics gear onto the market, practically free, to seed technology. It worked.

When I was a kid I used to buy aircraft radar displays that had a 4FP7 CRT inside, with the composite fast-blue/slow-yellow phosphor. I got them from Fair Radio Sales in Lima, Ohio.

Just for fun/nostalgia, I googled them a few years ago. They are still in business and had a few 4FP7's in stock, WWII vintage. So I bought two, $25 each.

fredag den 28. december 2018 kl. 01.18.24 UTC+1 skrev John Larkin:

there's a french guy on youtube that does tear downs of all kinds of weird military stuff he buys on ebay

the latest one the IR seeker from a Soviet missile

When my father was a boy most people didn't own a television set so a lot of the kids in his neighborhood amused themselves by finding some Irish, Italians, or Jews to beat up and mug in an alley.

Sometimes they spent the money they stole on vacuum tubes that shit was expensive in those days.

We didn't have much cash, but built our own tv from war surplus parts. People like that went on to become quite successful, while the bullies and other undesirables of the are went on to become fully fledged criminals, did time and enjoyed being a jail bitch so much, they went back a did it again and again. Show people like that any sort of response, hit em hard once, and they all run away back to their mom :-)...

Chris

I bought a unit called an ABE that used a dynamotor with an external shaft driving a small variable capacitor used with a tube (6J6 I think) used to jam radars aboard a bomber.

The apple doesn't fall far from the tree, I gather--socialists want to do the same thing on a far larger scale.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

He didn't involve himself in those hijinks he was a minister's son. He shipped out to Europe in late 1944 on the USS Wakefield and was on the front with the 10th Mountain by winter

Sometimes.

Ah, the "just world" fallacy. Oh, honey. I knew a number of school bullies who went on to Ivy League it's called having family with connections, you know?

It's the way America's always been for kids, at least if you weren't born into wealth. It's the way it was in 1935 and it's the way it was in

If you didn't have the experience consider yourself fortunate but people are going to think you're foolish for not recognizing your experience was the exception and not the rule.

The rule and not the exception, rather. It's always been a violent place.

One of the more interesting items around that time was a radio altimeter which used a speaker voice coil / capacitor assembly to frequency modulate the transmitter oscillator, Iirc, altitude measured as the frequency difference for the round trip to ground and back. A lot of people used the voice coil assembly to build narrow band sweepers for filter and if alignment.

So much of that science came from MIT Rad Lab and i'm still collecting the 30+ volume set, around 19 so far. Yes, it's all available as a single pdf file now, but it's nice to have the real books as a respectful nod to history...

Chris

Pretty much agree with that, right or wrong. Was like that in schools when I was a kid, but you only have to stand up to them once. Bullying always has been rife in some schools, but mow kids are supposed to report it and get into trouble if they fight etc. I told both my lads to hit them as hard as they can, so that they stay down. Seemed to work at the time...

Chris

You must be a real hacker if you are still buying stuff like that. Same here, but old aircraft / avionics, gyros, intertial nav etc, but most of that is ex mil and there's no info, so it just ends up as an ornament.

Looks like the 4fp7 was mag deflection, never saw one of those, in uk. There was a 3' dia tube with center electrode in the face, 3CP1, used for radar displays which turned up in a surplus item. Never did anything with it though...