In "The Hunt for the Red October" Clancy tells about a US fighter being cowardly fired from behind... (the part where F-14s zoom by some soviet fighters just to scare them but then a coward russian pilot fire for real in anger)... hollywood stuf... LOL
I read some Clancy's non-fiction (the books about Submarines, Fighter Squadrons, Armored Cav), lots of interesting info on military subjects, but the kind of info good for the general public, like scale modelers, simulation gamers, curious etc. To consider those books "expert material" is eggregious. On 8/10/06, Jean Laeremans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 8/10/06, Bob Calco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ! Tom Clancy's "uncanny knowledge of the weapons of war"??? > ! > ! LOL... a good tecno-thriller writer? Maybe yes. > ! > ! Weapons specialist? ROTFL > ! > ! (I exchanged e-mails with USAF and US Army military pilots who think > ! Tom Clancy is a joke). > > If any pilots Helio knows think Clancy is a joke, then Clancy doesn't > know what he's talking about; Some pilots Helio corresponds with think > that Clancy is a joke; therefore, Clancy doesn't know what he's > talking about. > > That's interesting "logic". > > You exchange emails with some select individuals, I'd say. These > wouldn't happen to be the "don't ask, don't tell" pilots would they, > Toshi? Come on Bob , personally i don't communicate with flier boys but those books are full of inaccuracies. In the one i've read during vacation fe - forgot the title already <s>- he talks about encryption and it was the usual story : NSA can break all codes and all codes are dev. in the US. Both statements are wrong oc. The latest AES encryption algorithm was dev. over here.. http://csrc.nist.gov/CryptoToolkit/aes/rijndael/ A+ jml
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