OK. One small question. If this was a "ECM Mission" Why the loaded M-60, or SAW?
The electronics don't need an explosive charge to make them "emit" from the radomes.
Perhaps this was something else. Perhaps an experimental ammo being tested. I spent a few years in Uncle Sugars Brigade, and don't recall them spending any time on something as insignificant as ammo. Not that ammo is insignificant, and I wasn't in munitions either. (As you were!!)
If it were something else like, say, an ECM pod, or other highly sensitive piece of equiptment, then yes, no effort was spared to repair the discrepancy.
I once spent several days helping pick up the pieces of some ECM gear I'd installed in some Italian 104's (4) that crashed into a mountainside within 15 minutes after take-off from Bitburg AB in Germany.
There's more to this story than the Porpaganda Ministry has told
Best Regards,
Don
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The most foolish mistake we could make would be to allow the subjected people to carry arms; history shows that all conquerers who have allowed their subjected people to carry arms have prepared their own fall.
Adolf Hitler
[This message has been edited by Donny (edited May 09, 2000).]
The electronics don't need an explosive charge to make them "emit" from the radomes.
Perhaps this was something else. Perhaps an experimental ammo being tested. I spent a few years in Uncle Sugars Brigade, and don't recall them spending any time on something as insignificant as ammo. Not that ammo is insignificant, and I wasn't in munitions either. (As you were!!)
If it were something else like, say, an ECM pod, or other highly sensitive piece of equiptment, then yes, no effort was spared to repair the discrepancy.
I once spent several days helping pick up the pieces of some ECM gear I'd installed in some Italian 104's (4) that crashed into a mountainside within 15 minutes after take-off from Bitburg AB in Germany.
There's more to this story than the Porpaganda Ministry has told
Best Regards,
Don
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The most foolish mistake we could make would be to allow the subjected people to carry arms; history shows that all conquerers who have allowed their subjected people to carry arms have prepared their own fall.
Adolf Hitler
[This message has been edited by Donny (edited May 09, 2000).]