CTII Raven

478-222-8611 I miss the old days when RAFB only had one exchange

My experience is that the C-17 won't fly far after landing on an umprepared field. Not much of the gear doors and or associated compnents would be left. Adding the armor blankets doesn't seem to help much.

Spent some time working with both Peterson and Cheyenne. Depends on your priorities. Peterson offers more off duty but from a unit perpsective I think Chyenne is better. My 2 cents worth Oh, and stay the hell away from Cannon.

Bob, 92-3021-3024 at Youngstown are 2.5s

Looks like a Yakota bird got to CEW on time, for a change ...

LAIRCM is on their 5th PM since Cappelano retired. Where will they go? I suspect the non LAIRCM birds go to AETC and the LAIRCM birds to an AMC Sq at the Rock.

Cross deck the Dragon Spear package a possiblity?

BTW, the other Nashville bird you mentioned earlier is a Whiskey

4 at Youngstown, 2 at Boise and 1 (former Boise) at Cheyenne.

that had F-4s before they converted to F-15s

Just a higher frequency to jam ... :cool::)

I've hear of another possible breach is in the offing. AMP isn't the only program to suffer from a lack of knowledge of a system, for whaterver reason, by AFOTEC, especially the Edwards dets. To be sure there are many good people in AFOTEC and I've worked with several over the years but the ingnorance of some is breath taking. The requirements that drove the need for AMP haven't gone away. The merits of particular portions of the solution under test can be discussed but the validity of the need or the solution cannot IMO.

Approaching 175 MAF aircraft

Perhaps something was learned from the +4 program?

Been an interesting few weeks but will be an even more interesting few months ...

I believe they are going to the Rock, both AMC and AETC.

We were refering to the same thing - the laser is a small, dense package ... The turret had the laser path in it from the start, awaiting the technology. AFSOC did the original development.

(old) ALQ-157 IR Jammer (Loral) Snowstorm was an a different mod

I haven't crawled around a Talon in seven years, need to schedule a trip up to Duke ...

10# of very dense electronics and optics ....;)

FTR the LAIRCM fairings and transmitters are located in the same location. The large fairing is the same P/N. Further, the forward Sensors installations are the same between DIRCM and LAIRCM. The aft sensors on slic C-130 LAIRCM aircraft are the same as the MC-130H aft sensor installation. The big difference? DIRCM is an AC system and LAIRCM is a DC system (and a heck of a lot lighter - ~400#).

If memory serves, 3 cranes a crane each fwd and aft with slings and the 3rd to flip it. Somewhere deep in a moving box I have pictures of a flip

RF antenna pattern measurements Spent way too much time there me for CTII, AC-130H and DIRCM testing

Five (5) years on an 18 month tour ...:eek:

HAd to accomplish an EMI test with it installed for a mod