"Hoges in WA" wrote in
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BTW, he tells me the story of an audio tape review they did from a
transit in an Upholder. Boring boring boring, listening listening
listening to old tapes from three weeks before. Until, quite
distinctly and verified by everyone who listened to it, they got a
Typhoon passing a couple of hundred yards behind them. Neither the
Russians nor them had any idea they were that close to each other.
They were kicking themselves because they should have picked up a
Typhoon that close.



Navy used to have a real monster of an air search radar. I think it was
designated AN/SPS-30, a height finder that had this huge round antenna
with a feed horn arm protruding way out one side. The antenna could be
pointed about anywhere with megawatts of real power.

In the Med, the guys on a cruiser had a Russian playing dangerous games
cutting across their course and getting closer and closer, why I'm not
sure. Anyways, the cure seemed to be to point this monster "Death Ray"
at the bridge of it, causing flourescent tubes to explode and things to
arc around port holes.

I didn't see this, but heard it from a first-hand observer. Of course,
with many incidents, it "never happened".....(c;

There was one on top of ET School in Great Lakes and they could point it
at the "strip" of whorehouses and bars outside the gate, lighting up the
whole place's flourescent and neon signs! That "didn't happen",
either....(c;