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Re: How much Technology was Stolen
Post by saber964   » Thu Aug 14, 2014 6:48 pm

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Weird Harold" [quote="crewdude48 wrote:
saber964 wrote:When I was in the USN, I heard stories about guys baking potatoes by putting them on the end of long poles and sticking them in the radar beam.


Must have made for some interesting radar returns...


Nah, most radar sets can't see anything that close.[/quote]



Nope no returns, but they did say that one newbie wrapped his spud in foil and tried to bake it. IIRC they said it looked like a 747 hovering about half a mile off the ship.
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Re: How much Technology was Stolen
Post by Roguevictory   » Thu Aug 14, 2014 10:19 pm

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Potato airlines :lol:
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Re: How much Technology was Stolen
Post by Spacekiwi   » Thu Aug 14, 2014 11:10 pm

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Cut it up and it becomes potato flies.....


Roguevictory wrote:Potato airlines :lol:
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Re: How much Technology was Stolen
Post by Hornblower   » Fri Aug 15, 2014 5:51 am

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Spacekiwi wrote:Cut it up and it becomes potato flies.....


Roguevictory wrote:Potato airlines :lol:


Somehow this thread has left its subject :shock:
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Re: How much Technology was Stolen
Post by Dafmeister   » Fri Aug 15, 2014 6:14 am

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Hornblower wrote:
Somehow this thread has left its subject :shock:


And this is surprising you why, exactly? :lol:
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Re: How much Technology was Stolen
Post by Hornblower   » Fri Aug 15, 2014 7:34 am

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Dafmeister wrote:
Hornblower wrote:
Somehow this thread has left its subject :shock:


And this is surprising you why, exactly? :lol:


I probably should be used to it by now.

Due to a certain lack of new books the fans have to much time for the forum :D
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Re: How much Technology was Stolen
Post by Hutch   » Fri Aug 15, 2014 8:29 am

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Dafmeister wrote:
Hornblower wrote:
Somehow this thread has left its subject :shock:


And this is surprising you why, exactly? :lol:


Quite so, and since the principal question under consideration on the thread (How much technology was stolen?) seems to have come to a general consensus of "None", the floor is now open for further explorations....

...And I wonder what a potato put in front of an Honorverse-level radar would look like.....
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Re: How much Technology was Stolen
Post by BobG   » Fri Aug 15, 2014 8:35 am

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KNick wrote:Just one quick thought to leave you with. A 10Mw directional microwave beam (read that as a surface search radar) will cook a 2lb bird (read that as seagull) that flies through it to the point that it could be served as dinner. Of course, that only happens within a few yards of the antenna, but picking up the dead birds after a system test was a pain.

I heard about that happening with PAVE PAWS on Cape Cod after I moved to Massachusetts. Apparently phased array search radars that look for incoming ICBMs can cook birds with ease.

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Re: How much Technology was Stolen
Post by GlynnStewart   » Fri Aug 15, 2014 10:11 am

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Hutch wrote:...And I wonder what a potato put in front of an Honorverse-level radar would look like.....


Given a radar capable of getting a return off a ship a million kilometers away...

I'm guessing said potato doesn't look like much of anything. Maybe fine ash.
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Re: How much Technology was Stolen
Post by Weird Harold   » Fri Aug 15, 2014 10:23 am

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GlynnStewart wrote:I'm guessing said potato doesn't look like much of anything. Maybe fine ash.


More like a rapidly expanding cloud of hot starch. :P
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