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jonerik writes: "Reuters is reporting that the U.S. Air Force is less than pleased about the recent posting of a number of sensitive jet communications components on eBay, including parts for the SR-71 spy plane, the F-16 fighter, the KC-10 tanker, and the giant C-5 transport. According to the article, the parts had sat in a warehouse for 12 years after being lost in shipping when the dealer, Norb Novocin, bought the lot for $244 in an unclaimed property sale. Novocin ended up selling four of the items to bidders in a recent auction, including an X-Band Weather Radar Modulator for $500 and a high-frequency radio circuit card for $32. The Air Force is looking into the incident and Novocin is cooperating."
- "Novocin informed the depot, who said they did not want the parts and suggested he sell them on eBay."
Typical government incompetency. It was only after Newsweek contacted them that they began to realize there was a problem.Check out Chad's News
Did a search on ebay for X-Band in completed items, and this came up. Guy's ebay id is estateauctionsinc , looks like he's just a guy who buys stuff at estate sales and such. Ebay has him listed as being from Jacksonville, so I looked up Norb Novcain in the white pages and yep, he's from Jacksonville...
I lost my concept of community when my community lost all concept of me.
Here's the Completed Items page for this vendor that includes the USAF items mentioned at the bottom of the web page.
There is also this list of electronics flea markets for the North East
I imagine there are a few someplace near silicon valley as well as CalTech, etc.
;-)
"It is a greater offense to steal men's labor, than their clothes"
Here's the Newsweek article mentioned in the Reuters story. I think the shipper who was supposed to take the stuff from Dover to Warner Robins is at fault.
The Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service holds public auctions, but they exclude items with demil code "D".
isn't the altimeters or weather gear, but the IFF (identify friend or foe) transmitter. Properly coded (which is the hard part), this could prevent friendly forces from being able to automatically target an incoming aircraft from a hostile force, as well as providing a way for a hostile aircraft to approach friendly forces.
Zathrus my boy, you're spouting acronyms without knowing what the hell you're talking about. A few of your errors:
1. An AWACS is an Air Force aircraft, built on a modified Boeing 707 airframe. There's no way that it would ever land on a carrier. You should have referenced the E-2 Hawkeye.
2. Carriers are one of the fastest surface vessels in the US Navy. The predominate term in the drag equation is the length of the waterline. Further, since most of our CVs are nuclear power, the CV doesn't burn excessive amounts of fuel when it goes fast.
3. Neither you or I know what's in the SOP, as the interesting bits are classified. It is a fair bet that every US ship would go to condition III (wartime cruising) after a WMD is detonated in the US.
4. AEGIS cannon?!?!? There's no such critter. See http://www.chinfo.navy.mil/navpalib/factfile/weapo ns/wepaegis.html . My guess is that you meant CIWS (Close In Weapons System, the R2D2-looking Phalanx.)
5. As a deception, sometimes the oiler is in the center of the formation.
6. It may be difficult to penetrate the defenses of the battle group, but not impossible.
7. Boats do not cruise "through thermal layers" -- they are above or below the layer, as the situation dictates.
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