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You don't know what you're talking about. - What is "range 72"? I know of a Range 75 and 76. I haven't heard of a Range 72. - The F-117 and HAVE BLUE aircraft
by runjake 4y ago
You don't know what you're talking about.
- What is "range 72"? I know of a Range 75 and 76. I haven't heard of a Range 72.
- The F-117 and HAVE BLUE aircraft, while similar looking, are substantially different in both design and size. And HAVE BLUE doesn't exist anymore. Both crashed.
- Red Flag is an USAF exercise. You probably meant the Red Hats squadron.
- SDI/Star Wars, as civilians know it, is dead and was never really a thing in the first place. It's a whole other ball game now. Hint: a player just landed this week.
- dcormier 4y ago> It's a whole other ball game now. Hint: a player just landed this week. What?
- skirmish 4y agoI assume this: https://www.npr.org/2022/11/12/1136308108/space-force-plane-mission-x37b https://www.npr.org/2022/11/12/1136308108/space-force-plane-...
- leetrout 4y agoHe is referencing the "secret" space plane https://qz.com/secret-us-space-plane-china-xi-biden-cold-war-1849780358 https://qz.com/secret-us-space-plane-china-xi-biden-cold-war...
- runjake 4y agoIndeed, I am. I suppose I should have just included a news link. Thanks!
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- site-packages1 4y agoF117 and Have Blue were both developed there, or at least tested. It’s been a while since I read Skunk Works. Maybe they’re not there right this second, but I took the comment to be giving some examples of secret things that have happened there, not necessarily things there right this second, because we really can’t know what’s happening there this second because I assume that’s secret. Otherwise the comment is unnecessarily aggressive for no reason, and I think I detect a tone of condescension, which is unwarranted. This is why I downvoted.
- runjake 4y agoHappened where? At "range 72"? That was what the comment I was replying to claimed. F-117 and HAVE BLUE testing primarily occurred at Area 51, not some place called "range 72". They were developed and built at Lockheed in California. I don't believe I was particularly aggressive. The commenter posted a bunch of incorrect information. I called them out. That's how it should work. I see far worse on HN when it comes to programming language/editor wars.
- IgorPartola 4y agoFWIW I thought your comment was aggressive and borderline rude. Being right and being polite are not mutually exclusive.
- jjulius 4y ago>I don't believe I was particularly aggressive. "You don't know what you're talking about" is aggressive and rude; like you're calling them stupid. "Actually, I don't think that's right", along with some, "Can you clarify?" is not aggressive, and welcomes them into a conversation. >I called them out. That's how it should work. There's a way to do that constructively. See above.
- site-packages1 4y agoTo be fair, I did look at this in the best light possible and took your overly aggressive tone and hanging your hat on a scriveners error like putting a “2” instead of whatever other number when it was clear what the poster was talking about to be an EQ gap on your part and not malice.
- GartzenDeHaes 4y agoI guess I didn't write that comment very well and I have no idea what the current money toilet out there is. The Soviet Union collapsed 30 years ago, SDI was canceled 30 years ago, the F117 was retired and hasn't flown at TTR for 30 years, and that goofy drone was public disclosed 30 years ago.