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Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: philw on September 03, 2012, 09:14:29 AM
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hahah
what licence would i need for one of these..
A 3M-LONG air-to-air missile has been found inside a house in the north-eastern suburbs.
Police said the heat-seeking Sidewinder missile the same type used by RAAF F/A-18 Hornet jet fighters was disarmed and safe when they found it among a cache of weapons last week.
The Sidewinder missiles are supersonic, heat-seeking missiles and are fired from fighter jets.
The smart weapons are equipped with an explosive warhead and infrared guidance system which locks on to heat signals from enemy aircraft. Sidewinders are 3.2m long and weigh about 85kg.
A man, 51, has been charged with a range of offences including possessing dangerous articles, unlawful possession and unregistered and insecure firearms.
Police have launched an investigation into how the missile came to be in Modbury North but would not provide any further details.
The Department of Defence declined to comment on the missle discovery, but said it had been advised by police that the incomplete and expended missile, and other inactive weapons, were recovered during the search.
http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/heat-seeking-sidewinder-missile-found-in-house-at-modbury-north/story-e6frea83-1226462521401
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I wonder what his political/religious affiliation is?
If he were a Tea Party member we'd likely know his name, where he was born, what he had for breakfast and who he voted for in 2008. What they are not telling us is more informative than what they should tell us.
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I wonder what his political/religious affiliation is?
If he were a Tea Party member we'd likely know his name, where he was born, what he had for breakfast and who he voted for in 2008. What they are not telling us is more informative than what they should tell us.
caus a lot of the time with crimes like that they don't name them until it all goes to court
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There is also the security breach(maybe its not, but I doubt it) that they have to investagate. Thats not some thing you can just find laying around.
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I'm confused, did they find a "real" Sidewinder, or the shell of a "incomplete and expended missile"?
Sounds so ominous until that last sentence.
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I'm confused, did they find a "real" Sidewinder, or the shell of a "incomplete and expended missile"?
Sounds so ominous until that last sentence.
Probably a training round that landed intact.
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I will neither confirm or deny the exhistance of a desk lamp made from a Mk76 training bomb....
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I will neither confirm or deny the exhistance of a desk lamp made from a Mk76 training bomb....
Could you throw some light on the subject ? ;D
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I was a Stinger gunner in the Army, many moons ago. The man portable kind, tho.
"If it flies, it dies" :)
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I don't have it anymore. We had it on the boat and it disappeared after cruise. >:(
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A point of clarification... which always sticks in my craw...
The are heat FOLLOWING missiles - they DO NOT SEEK heat they just follow a designated source at launch... they just happen to be much much faster than the source.
In their little electronic boxes we assimilate as "brains" they have an IF:THAN statement.
IF it is at the heat source:NO - THAN continue to follow.
IF it is at the heat source:YES - THAN close a switch.... POOF
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Built for one thing...to bugger a jet right up it's tailpipe.
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A point of clarification... which always sticks in my craw...
The are heat FOLLOWING missiles - they DO NOT SEEK heat they just follow a designated source at launch... they just happen to be much much faster than the source.
In their little electronic boxes we assimilate as "brains" they have an IF:THAN statement.
IF it is at the heat source:NO - THAN continue to follow.
IF it is at the heat source:YES - THAN close a switch.... POOF
Point of clarification - It's "If, then" not "If, than." ;)
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Point of clarification - It's "If, then" not "If, than." ;)
When you are talking about a noun (thing, person, place or concept (Sidewinder)) being more, less, better, cooler, dumber, closer etc. in relation to another noun (target Aircraft), the word than is necessary.
When you want to give instructions in a step-by-step order, the word then is necessary.
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;)
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There's no such thing as an if-than statement. You are describing the decision process (action/verb) of the missile alone, not its proximity or relational status to the target:
if locked on to IR source, then continue to follow until impact
if no impact after a set number of seconds, then self destruct
:)
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There's no such thing as an if-than statement. You are describing the decision process (action/verb) of the missile alone, not its proximity or relational status to the target:
if locked on to IR source, then continue to follow until impact
if no impact after a set number of seconds, then self destruct
:)
Thank you!
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I will neither confirm or deny the exhistance of a desk lamp made from a Mk76 training bomb....
now that would be cool..
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now that would be cool..
I might be able to build another one. We'll see in a few hours.
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I might be able to build another one. We'll see in a few hours.
runs off to check if customs will let it in to Aust.. ;)
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runs off to check if customs will let it in to Aust.. ;)
Dude, they make you keep a BB gun under tighter security than we have for our ICBM's.
No way in hell they'll let you import something shaped like a bomb.