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There is a lot you can learn by floating a slow moving object rigged with antennas over your adversary and then noting which types of radar light you up and fro
by politician 4y ago
There is a lot you can learn by floating a slow moving object rigged with antennas over your adversary and then noting which types of radar light you up and from which direction. Especially when you float them over military sites.
- barsonme 4y agoI’m sure the US military is smart enough to put their toys away before the balloon they’ve been watching for a week floats overhead.
- ben_w 4y agoHopefully. But my dad, who worked on (British) military IFF stuff, did have a story about an ICBM early warning system (I think American) that determined an attack was inbound because someone forgot about the Moon.
- jecel 4y agoSee the October 5 1960 entry in this list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_close_calls https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_close_calls