We're the Military and Airpower Guys of Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online + a stray we found wandering around looking lost. All original material JHD, BHD, JR, WT, and KA 2003-2010 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/12/and_the_winnah.html Fri, 06 Jan 2012 18:31:23 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2012 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification ...OldSchool, who tagged yesterday's Whatziss as an SPS-141MVG ECM pod. The nose-on view is kind of a giveaway that it's *not* an aux fuel tank and the view from behind home plate cinches that it ain't a missile (note to BCR: okay, okay -- there *could* be a gravity repulsor in there, but the tail cone is the wrong shape for that particular app). What really piqued my interest about this beastie was that, unlike the other SovStuff (a *huge* number of 57mm rocket pods live here) I poked around, the exterior assembly / warning / access stencils were locally-applied... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/12/and_the_winnah.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/12/and_the_winnah.html Fri, 28 Dec 2007 05:20:55 -0600 Bill, please tell us that it has been cut into itty-bitty harmless pieces... Nope. But its teeth aren't fully-developed and it doesn't move very fast. Yet.]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/12/and_the_winnah.html#comment-68014 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/12/and_the_winnah.html#comment-68014 Fri, 28 Dec 2007 22:35:19 -0600 The port fin is OBVIOUSLY not symmetrical with the starboard fin. Cartoon Universe, I tell you! That gizmo frightens me. I think it would try to eat me, if it were animated, and knew where I lived. Trans-dimensional anomalous artifacts must be destroyed, as Atticus Finch shot the rabid dog with the Krag. Bill, please tell us that it has been cut into itty-bitty harmless pieces, and said pieces burnt beyond recognition in a very hot fire, so that we might be spared from the consequences of whatever nefarious programs were built into its evil cognitive engine! http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/12/and_the_winnah.html#comment-68013 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/12/and_the_winnah.html#comment-68013 Fri, 28 Dec 2007 22:13:45 -0600 Put some Republican Guard troopers in the photo, then ring up Jane Fonda. I'm sure she would be happy to come out and pose. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/12/and_the_winnah.html#comment-68008 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/12/and_the_winnah.html#comment-68008 Fri, 28 Dec 2007 20:09:07 -0600 The 23-4 just points out where the enemy is. Handy in a fight. What makes me go "eeek" are US Army ADA batteries. They're MUCH more lethal. (Ask the Navy and the Brits.) http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/12/and_the_winnah.html#comment-68002 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/12/and_the_winnah.html#comment-68002 Fri, 28 Dec 2007 18:32:42 -0600 Oooh. Want that. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/12/and_the_winnah.html#comment-67991 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/12/and_the_winnah.html#comment-67991 Fri, 28 Dec 2007 10:19:20 -0600 That's right, Chief- we never heard the 'trolling-for-flak' TINS... that 23-4 should jog the ol' memory cells! http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/12/and_the_winnah.html#comment-67990 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/12/and_the_winnah.html#comment-67990 Fri, 28 Dec 2007 09:20:38 -0600 Ooooo. Bring home one of those launchers! I can make a kewl mailbox out of one of those! Oh, and don't tell me you didn't have some twitches when you saw it... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/12/and_the_winnah.html#comment-67989 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/12/and_the_winnah.html#comment-67989 Fri, 28 Dec 2007 08:54:19 -0600