tag:www.thedonovan.com,2012://1/tag:www.thedonovan.com,2010://1.12686- 2012-03-24T14:59:23Z Comments for A Present For The B-Day Boss 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 Movable Type 4.12 tag:www.thedonovan.com,2010://1.12686 2010-07-30T00:51:12Z 2010-07-30T00:58:28Z A Present For The B-Day Boss Boquisucio http://www.thedonovan.com
Behold The Air Force's Flying Bayos:




Real Caption Reads:
The Air Force's drill team performs during Wednesday's arena show at the 2010 National Jamboree at Fort A.P. Hill in Bowling Green, Va., on July 28, 2010.… (AP Photo/The Free Lance-Star, Mike Morones)
Boq]]> tag:www.thedonovan.com,2010://1.12686-comment:108925 Comment from Blake Kirk on 2010-08-01 Blake Kirk
It's been a while since my PMOS was 11H3P, (Heavy Antiarmor Section Leader, for those of you who aren't old enough to remember when 11H was a valid MOS,) but if I recall correctly, the minimum arming range for the warhead on the TOW is 200 meters.  The Missile Guidance Set doesn't send the signal to enable the fuse until enough milliseconds have passed for the missile to have travelled that distance.

What got us in the TOW community a trifle disconcerted was that there was one production lot of live-warhead TOW1 missiles out there in the early 80's which had the annoying habit of doing a 180 degree turn somewhere around 1000 meters downrange.  Of course, the radical turn broke the tracking-head's lock on the IR flare on the ass-end of the missile body, and the MGS would lose control of the missile, which would then crash and blow up.  I don't think anyone ever got hurt by one of those missiles, but there were a lot of guys who wound up having to change their shorts after one of those incidents.


]]> 2010-08-01T15:55:38Z 2010-08-01T15:55:38Z tag:www.thedonovan.com,2010://1.12686-comment:108918 Comment from Justthisguy on 2010-08-01 Justthisguy http://enemiesofthelibrary.blogspot.com ]]> 2010-08-01T11:32:03Z 2010-08-01T11:32:03Z tag:www.thedonovan.com,2010://1.12686-comment:108883 Comment from John of Argghhh! on 2010-07-31 John of Argghhh! http://www.thedonovan.com Attila, that *does* have a certain panache, doesn't it? 2010-07-31T12:41:51Z 2010-07-31T12:41:51Z tag:www.thedonovan.com,2010://1.12686-comment:108880 Comment from BillT on 2010-07-31 BillT http://www.thedonovan.com
Which means that if the break occurs on launch, it'll do an inside loop and try to re-insert itself into the launch tube, and with a live warhead, you don't want to be in the same neighborhood.

Best place to observe the consternation is from Low Earth Orbit...
]]> 2010-07-31T09:31:32Z 2010-07-31T09:31:32Z tag:www.thedonovan.com,2010://1.12686-comment:108878 Comment from Attila on 2010-07-31 Attila http://www.thedonovan.com 2010-07-31T07:34:41Z 2010-07-31T07:34:41Z tag:www.thedonovan.com,2010://1.12686-comment:108877 Comment from Attila on 2010-07-31 Attila http://www.thedonovan.com
When you go to those things, just don't wear any colors that contrast sharply with the surroundings. Of course, if it's a G-model and it goes dumb and then wakes up and locks up on you in the forced-correlate mode, step sideways just before it hits you...it can't make that sharp a turn.
]]> 2010-07-31T07:32:13Z 2010-07-31T07:32:13Z tag:www.thedonovan.com,2010://1.12686-comment:108847 Comment from BillT on 2010-07-30 BillT http://www.thedonovan.com ...an '03 bayonet flew off toward the crowd and artfully arced through the air landing just short of the full stands and quivered in the floor.

I doubt there's any former member of the Pershing Rifles who *doesn't* sport a "PR Scar" from a botched toss...

]]> 2010-07-30T21:13:57Z 2010-07-30T21:13:57Z tag:www.thedonovan.com,2010://1.12686-comment:108836 Comment from Annabelle on 2010-07-30 Annabelle 2010-07-30T19:50:40Z 2010-07-30T19:50:40Z tag:www.thedonovan.com,2010://1.12686-comment:108833 Comment from John of Argghhh! on 2010-07-30 John of Argghhh! http://www.thedonovan.com Well, at least it was a *manly* bayonet! 2010-07-30T19:24:14Z 2010-07-30T19:24:14Z tag:www.thedonovan.com,2010://1.12686-comment:108806 Comment from JimC on 2010-07-30 JimC ]]> 2010-07-30T15:20:59Z 2010-07-30T15:20:59Z tag:www.thedonovan.com,2010://1.12686-comment:108797 Comment from John of Argghhh! on 2010-07-30 John of Argghhh! http://www.thedonovan.com 2010-07-30T12:09:36Z 2010-07-30T12:09:36Z