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Stolly

Stolly

Stolly

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I post on another forum that has active duty on it, who post from where they are based (ain't the internet a wonderful thing)

One of these chaps works on JSTARS

http://www.airforce-technology.com/projects/jstars/

This is something he just posted, another battle won in the name of freedom. I've toned down the language to not offend our gentle mods ;)

NOTE: Callsigns and grids have been changed to protect OPSEC

I'm surveilling an area (some direction) of (some Iraqi city). My surveillance tech finds what appears to be a mover someplace where no mover should be. I have a 2 ship of F-16 CGs under my control.

We observe the mover for a couple minutes. It moves towards a friendly route, then scurries away, holding up near a copse of trees.

I decide it is a possible IED emplacement situation and call it out:

Sieg: Viper 21- JSTARS, have mover, say ready

Viper 21: Viper 21 ready, go.

Sieg: Viper 21, have mover 59AB, keypad 2, say ready details.

VR21: Viper 21 copies, 59AB, ready details.

Sieg: Viper21, elevation 131 feet, grid 24ABC 123 456. How copy?

VR21: Copy 24ABC 123 456

Sieg: observed mover in vicinity of route whatever, then moved to last location, over

VR21: copy all, time over target 4 mike.

About three minutes pass.

VR21: JSTARS, appears we have some kind of animals at your location. Think maybe dogs

Sieg: Copy, "dogs"

VR21: No... wait it's two dogs. Oh my god- no way... Looks like one is mounting the other.

VR22: No way man, what's that grid?

VR21 passes the grid to his wingman

VR22: No way! they totally getting it on!

VR21: JSTARS, we have two dogs getting it on.

VR22: I'm gonna tape this. This is good stuff!

VR21: You getting this stuff? Tape it man, tape it all

VR22: Oh yeah... he's really giving it to her, too!

Sieg: JSTARS copies, two dogs getting it on

VR21: right man.. they're going at it.

VR22: Viper Ops is gonna eat this stuff up.



So... um.. that was the highlight of my night. Good news, our MPT guys are trying to get a copy of the video. ***IF*** we can get it, ***AND*** we can get it declassified, I will email a copy to ***
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Billions of dollars later, we can now detect dogs being dogs from 30,000 feet :)
 
I have no idea where I read it, but for some reason a "fact" has remained in my head about the equipment on a Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird.

Apparently even back in the days when it was used as a reconnaissance plane (1960's-1980's) its camera equipment could track the motion of a moving golf ball on the ground. This plane flew at 80,000ft... :eek:
 
Moredhel said:
I don't think dogs are that good at multi-tasking. And they don't make very good insurgents anyway. ;)
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They used to,

Dead one by the roadside, stuffed with explosives, I mean how harmless is a dead dog ??
 
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