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Australia Cracked US Combat Aircraft Codes

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the end-run-around-the-bureaucracy dept.

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."

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  1. Hm.... by GoblinJuice · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Nothing for you to see here. Please move along.

  2. ObJimbo by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    All right Ned! Let's kill us some God damn Australians!

  3. You inseNsitive clod.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    When I sttod for

  4. I JUST CRAPPED MY PANTS...AGAIN!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Mom's going to be pissed!

  5. Fortunately, The United Gulags of America by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    will collapse from massive military spending. This will hopefully offer the possibility of freedom and democracy in The United States of America.

  6. TAG THIS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    closedsource