CHARLES,
     In a message dated 11-19Ä97 you wrote ...
>     The proximity fuses used the doppler effect of radar
>     to detect a frequency change as it passed the target.
>     Chaff could fool it. I've never heard of sending
>     false data to the fuze, but then, what the hey, there's
>     lots of things I've never heard of. 
  We had the exact frequency of the SAMs fuzing.  The EWOs
  were taught to explode them.. I forget the procedures.
>     I was told once, by a former B-52 driver, that the
>     B-52 radar had some awesome capabilities, including
>     blacking out the whole East Coast, if they chose to
>     do so.
  As a B-52 radar/navigator for 8 years, I had a bit of experience
 with the Q-38 system (Used in F, G, H models).  The output was
 250,000 watts.  I guess I can say (30 years later) how we could
 burn the crystals out on an opposing radar.. The EWO would give
 me the frequency that he wanted blanked an the azimuth from a/c.
 I would set my magnetron to that, sector scan the direction and
 when he asked, go to radiate. Put that 250,000 watts right into
 his antenna... We did not used it too off because the fighters
 did not like to go home with burneed out crystal and catch hell
 from their maintenance. :) That was just one of the little items
 of coordination of the crew.
>     The C-130 had angle deceivers, which could cause the
>     steering dot of my aircraft radar to move off of the
>     target aircraft. I didn't mind that so much, but I was
>     seriously offended when they would "scribe" vulgar
>     phrases on my radar scope. 
>     I drifted a tad, there. Sorry. Back to the discussion:
>     IMO, there could also be an IR proximity fuse, but
>     I've never heard of one.
   I am thankful that Luftwaffe did not have proximity fuze
 as an 88 went through our right wing and went off about 20
 feet above us. No vital equipment hit between 3 and 4
 engines... Made a BIG hole.. Most of the shrapnel goes
 horizontal on burst... We could tell 88 as smoke was black
 120 were white unless they were using signal shells...
   Vienna/Weiner Neusted area had 2100 guns when the war
 ended.... They would breif us on 400 to 500 at target.
 but as they drew back from Balkans, the number increased...
>
> JS> Saddam is playing a ware of nerves.  He knows hoow our military
> JS> has been downsized and spread very thin.  Many assigned to
> JS> social and civil duties.
>
>     The pendulum swings. It's been doing that for years
>     and years, now.
  Reminds me of the 20s and 30s... Stupid asses downsized then
 when a good defense program would have brought us out of
 the depression... But that is another thing... We ALMOST got
 caught without a long range bomber. You can thank Generals
 Arnold and Andrews....
   -=*  Jim Sanders  *=-
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