Thread: drone landing on carrier

A bit off topic , but that hasn't worried me before. Bob [ I was there this night, On Vampire. ]


The Melbourne-Evans Incident (released 1975) - YouTube

Originally Posted by Reads90

When ever I see these sort of things it reminds me of something

I had a cousin who was in the SAS in the uk and I always remember what he used to tell me.
And that was if you see something new from the military in the papers or on TV then I am telling you it is not that new. They will say its new but had it for a few years. They won't invent a new weapon and tell the world about it straight if the bat. They keep it to themselves for a bit.
Don't know how true that is but seems to make sense. So as to keep the advantage against your foes.

An aquiantance of mine got ambushed a long way into Angola in the ealy 80's. Got lost & missed the helicopter evac. So he walked out, which took him about 3 months iirc. Once he got back to a base in SWA/Namibia he was court martialled on the basis that he must have been colluding with the enemy, to have been in Angola that long without getting killed.
He was exonerated because his story of E & E was proved when they checked the satellite photos & saw him, where & when he said he was.
Remember, that's in the early 80's, that a single person could be recognised from a satellite photo!
It wasn't until the late 90's / early 2000's (iirc) that the media was talking about satellites that could do this.

On the other hand, an Uncle of mine tells this story; He was escorting some Russian Diplomat types who were being allowed to witness part of a tank exercise some time after WW2. (There had been some top level argument about this as you can imagine, since it was the early part of the Cold War). However, my Uncle states that the Russians were so impressed by the rate of fire achieved by the British tanks (thanks to the newly developed independant targeting system which enabled the commander to lay in & program the next shot before the previous had even been fired) that it completely put them off the idea of starting a shooting war - at the time a very real possibility, apparently.