"Just Jeepin'" (macintux)
12/15/2018 at 01:04 • Filed to: Planelopnik
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"Just Jeepin'" (macintux)
12/15/2018 at 01:04 • Filed to: Planelopnik | 2
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You may remember !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! about a 10+ hour cloud of chaff that spread across Indiana and Kentucky. Well, we !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! that it was a C-130H that dumped it for safety reasons, although precisely what those reasons are hasn’t been clarified.
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ttyymmnn
> Just Jeepin'
12/15/2018 at 01:18 |
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But there were other dumps as well. This “safety reasons” explanation doesn’t add up for me.
facw
> Just Jeepin'
12/15/2018 at 01:25 |
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But there’s a followup: Now Massive Plumes Of Chaff Are Lighting Up Radar Over Maine and Florida Too
Nick Has an Exocet
> Just Jeepin'
12/15/2018 at 01:31 |
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This doesn’t answer the question everyone wants to know: Was it hot chaff?
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ttyymmnn
> facw
12/15/2018 at 01:36 |
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I still think there is more to this story.
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facw
> ttyymmnn
12/15/2018 at 01:48 |
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Yeah, the explanation has a lot of holes in it. Some of those may be due to my ignorance, but it seems like something more is going on.
SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media
> Just Jeepin'
12/15/2018 at 01:53 |
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America has chaffing...I usually find Sudocre m works wonders on chaffing.
Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen
> Just Jeepin'
12/15/2018 at 02:08 |
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“For safety reasons” is exactly why you’re supposed to dump chaff, isn’t it? As in “I’ll be a lot safer if that missile stops chasing me”.
I wonder if they were dodging Al Qaeda with Stingers, constitutional extremists with homemade rockets, or Michelle Obama and th e Air National Guard staging a coup.
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facw
> Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen
12/15/2018 at 02:15 |
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Michelle Obama and the Air National Guard
Suddenly the connection becomes clear!
MrDakka
> Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen
12/15/2018 at 03:02 |
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Stingers use passive IR/UV seekers. Chaff is used as a countermeasure for radar guided missiles.
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MrDakka
> ttyymmnn
12/15/2018 at 03:13 |
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Homeworld Security is moving the USS Prometheus battle cruiser into orbit, so they needed a convenient way to cover up its huge radar signature .
Jason Spears
> Just Jeepin'
12/15/2018 at 08:13 |
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This is just readiness exercises along Santa’s main corridors of travel.
BaconSandwich is tasty.
> ttyymmnn
12/15/2018 at 11:39 |
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Maybe trying to hide the radar signature of something large?
wafflesnfalafel
> Jason Spears
12/15/2018 at 11:47 |
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“Rudolph with your nose so bright, I hope it cuts through chaff tonight...”
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ttyymmnn
> BaconSandwich is tasty.
12/15/2018 at 13:17 |
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Or some sort of test.
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BaconSandwich is tasty.
> ttyymmnn
12/15/2018 at 15:51 |
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What I find interesting is that they didn’t do it just once - it sounds like there was
more incidents of chaff being dispersed again. I almost wonder if it some sort of not-so-secret demonstration to China/Russia. “Hey, look - we can disperse chaff and have it hang in the air for hours, which means we could hide something if we wanted to.”
Tristan
> Just Jeepin'
12/15/2018 at 17:50 |
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10/10 the navigator sat on the pickle switch.
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ttyymmnn
> BaconSandwich is tasty.
12/16/2018 at 15:54 |
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Exactly. They were either hiding the movement of something, hiding a test of something, or testing out some new chaff. This wasn’t an accidental discharge.