Redstone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Wed Jul-30-08 11:24 PM
Response to Reply #8
9. Yeah, that's what the Navy has standardized on. The new "super" version actually has some decent range (which the earlier models lacked), so they're planning to use them as jammers to replace the EA6B Prowlers (carrying the good old ALQ-99 jammer pods, which the same I helped design a long time ago).
Really?
The AN/ALQ-99 has been used during the Vietnam War (1972-1973), 1986 American attacks in Libya, 1991 Gulf War, Operation Northern Watch (1992–2003), Operation Southern Watch (1997–2003), 1999 Balkans War, 2003 Second Gulf War, and 2011 Operation Odyssey Dawn.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AN/ALQ-99Let's see: Redstone born in 1954, AN/ALQ-99 deployed in 1972. Hmmmmm, that would mean that the late DUmmie would have been 18 years old when these were first deployed to be used in combat (according to the link). Now, I haven't been on the R & D level of military hardware, just a lowly end user
but one thing I do know is that it takes a good bit of time between the drawing board and deployment to troops in the field.
So, one would have to wonder how it is that the late DUmmie was able to pull off being the John J Rambo of heavy equipment contractors at 19 (1973) and having been on the design team of an airborne electronic warfare package (presumably) before he was out of high school.
That can only lead to one of two conclusions:
A - He really is a sooper genius, badass, save-the-day, working class hero type that dabbled in many things across many spectrums.
Orrrrrrrr.....
B - He was a lying DUmbass that read something on a website (ie EA-6 Prowler overview) and decided that it would be a good idea to somehow attach some much needed and otherwise missing greatness to a relatively shallow and non accomplishment filled life without thinking it may come back to bite him in that ass.
RIP, "Redstone". Wherever you happen to have landed in the afterlife, I can only hope the fellow souls there are as gullible as the mouth-breathers at the DUmp.