I
have no apologies for my wariness in this political climate. Lost
in
the Free Republic archives are my documentation of mysterious
loss of
satellites in the latter Clinton years.
The White House approved
a request from (huge Clinton donor) Loral Space
to allow the Chinese to "borrow" our
missile guidances system
for their early (peaceful) satellite launches. All prior
attempts had
ended in disaster because of faulty guidance software. Loral
supervisors were present to install the system immediately prior to
blast off, to insure that the PRC had no chance to steal it. The
rocket launched and immediately tumbled to earth. By the time the
Loral engineers arrived at the site, guess what? The nose
cone was
missing.
About a year or so later, we read reports about how at least two (as I
remember) American satellites gone mysteriously missing. Given
that six
years later a Chinese
General threatened to nuke America's west coast, I considered them a
PRC message to Garcia.
And this? A PRC stealth technology advance?
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U-2's have been flying everywhere since the '50's... suddenly ONE of them fries the magic boxes at L.A.'s ATC?
ReplyDeleteAm I the only one who's BULLSH*T METER not only "pegged" at 10+ but wrapped around the post?
If this isn't a cart-load of Happy Hoers Sh*t," I'll eat one!
Ah... that should have been "horse."
ReplyDeleteD*mn those U-2's!
Beale AFB, home of the U2's is just on the other side of the mountain from Pasadena. Nothing new. Maybe they have jammers. Its common knowledge in the Corps that the New York City blackout in the 70's was caused by a Marine EA-6B from VMAQ-2. Someone just had to see what that button did. -Anymouse
ReplyDeleteI work for the FAA and my BS meter pegged also but from the headline not the article. Remember these articles are written by "reporters"! Having said that, we've had problems before with the Air Force in particular not knowing how to fill put a flight plan properly. The older system could and would crash from military flight plans that were filled and filed by excitable children. Just saying that from the content of the story and not the headline that sounds like what happened.
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