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Australia Cracked US Combat Aircraft Codes
SpamSlapper writes "Former defense minister Kim Beazley has told how Australia cracked top-secret American combat aircraft codes in the 1980s to enable the shooting down of enemy aircraft. The radar on Australia's US-made Hornets could not identify most potentially hostile aircraft in the region — they were set up for European threats — but despite many requests, the codes were not provided, so 'In the end we spied on them and we extracted the codes ourselves.' The Americans knew what the Australians were doing and were intrigued by the progress they made."
"Austria" is a friendly OPEC member.
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Former defense minister. It's easy to be forgotten if you're too quiet.
Back on topic, this is what you got for not using open source aircrafts.
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The Americans kept saying they'd provide the codes, but never did. Pictures tall kid dangling candy over another kids head. "Here you go" kid jumps... "Sucker..." "Here you go!" kid jumps again... "Sucker..."
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does the DMCA apply retroactively? If so, then Australia can never step foot in the US again.
Well, keep in mind that there was a huge Aussie fad in America in the mid-late 80's. We were ALL surprised at how much progress they made at the time. If it hadn't been for the unfortunate "Yahoo Serious" setback in 1988, who knows what they could have ultimately done.
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'In the end we spied on them and we extracted the codes ourselves.'
This is a massive violation of human rights. The US DOD has many Australians in it, who may have therefore been spied on by the Australian government without a warrant. Therefore Australia is a police state.
"Oh look at them, they're trying to crack our codes..."
"Oh look, they're actually succeeding. How intriguing!"
"Hey, wait a sec, they're pointing those missiles at use. I continue to be intrigued!"
because at the time, all Australian aircraft fuel was under seige by Lord Humongous in the desert, and Crocodile Dundee was MIA on a walkabout
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whoooooooooooooooooooosh! did i just see something pass overhead?
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I suspect Australia(disclaimer Im Australian) thought that as the US and Australia are very close allies the USAF might give us the ability to use the aircraft we purchased. But hey we followed the US into Iraq so what the hell do we know :)
no, I don't think this is a type. Search for somone and u will see that somone is often requested to fix things in numberable fields. Somone is quite smart, so I would be satisfied outsmarting somone. 138,000 search results on google and I am only now hearing of somone. Unbelievable!
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I think the post meant to say "Impotence" - the inability to shoot when desired.
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A good excuse to stay at home and drink beer... why wouldn't the Aussies buy this?
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I'd say you owe us at least a couple slabs of VBs!
I was at the Paris Air Show a few years ago. One company had on display a MIG cockpit. They had retrofitted it with modern avionics.
The problem was that the display model, that was at the show, was running Windows and had BSODed. I wonder how many they sold...
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When I was in high school so many years ago, I spent a couple of summer weeks in Europe on one of those tours that shows you everything you can see from a bus. On the flight up to JFK (the one in New York) for our departure to Brussels, one of my classmates commented on how much she was looking forward to visiting Austria. Now I have nothing against Austria, and it turned out to be the country where one of my most memorable experiences on the trip occurred, but at the time I could not imagine why a high school student from North Carolina would have any particular reason to look forward to being in Austria. Maybe she liked mountains. So I asked.
She was looking forward to the accent. I was impressed. To this day I don't think I would be able to distinguish an Austrian from a German by accent.
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... as Ozzie doesn't sound like he is in the middle of a two week druge binge, either. Two weeks isn't a binge for him, that is more of a "light appetizer before the main course".
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