Fascinating post! Thank you so much for sharing it, sir.
Something you wrote caught my imagination:
> On the way home the Electronic Warfare Officer would “accidentally” turn on the communications jammers over populated parts of the U.S. and shut down television and FM radio stations for hundreds of miles.
So of course I had to scroll immediately to the comments field and ask:
While flying through enemy territory, would this not make a big hole in the radar landscape? If one could map where all the radar signals were as they traveled through the air, and then all of a sudden a blob of disrupted or missing signal waves appeared, is that not a big sign saying, "Shoot here!"?
A whale would make a shadow swimming through a fish tank, yes. A B-52's signal-blocking sphere would be quite the shadow. Is there a way to disguise the shadow?
I should read to the end of your post. At this point, I haven't gotten a proper grasp on how it all works, but this is why your post is so fascinating.
Reading this feels like the follow on story of Donald A. Miller's Master of the Air. He wrote about the 8th Air Force in WW2. The book is full of the rationale about the bombing strategy during WW2 and how they executed it, which was far cruder than taking a whale through a fish tank!
It is fun to see an engineer's mind at work, whether in the military or a startup. Different tasks, but the same "asks"... what are we doing, what is the problem we are trying to solve. Pretty interesting history mate. TY
Fascinating post! Thank you so much for sharing it, sir.
Something you wrote caught my imagination:
> On the way home the Electronic Warfare Officer would “accidentally” turn on the communications jammers over populated parts of the U.S. and shut down television and FM radio stations for hundreds of miles.
So of course I had to scroll immediately to the comments field and ask:
While flying through enemy territory, would this not make a big hole in the radar landscape? If one could map where all the radar signals were as they traveled through the air, and then all of a sudden a blob of disrupted or missing signal waves appeared, is that not a big sign saying, "Shoot here!"?
A whale would make a shadow swimming through a fish tank, yes. A B-52's signal-blocking sphere would be quite the shadow. Is there a way to disguise the shadow?
I should read to the end of your post. At this point, I haven't gotten a proper grasp on how it all works, but this is why your post is so fascinating.
Thank you, again, for posting this history!
Reading this feels like the follow on story of Donald A. Miller's Master of the Air. He wrote about the 8th Air Force in WW2. The book is full of the rationale about the bombing strategy during WW2 and how they executed it, which was far cruder than taking a whale through a fish tank!
It is fun to see an engineer's mind at work, whether in the military or a startup. Different tasks, but the same "asks"... what are we doing, what is the problem we are trying to solve. Pretty interesting history mate. TY