Australia Cracked US Combat Aircraft Codes 280
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."
Fortunately for America... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:hm (Score:5, Funny)
Back on topic, this is what you got for not using open source aircrafts.
Understandable (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Procurement (Score:5, Funny)
Cartoony image (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Fortunately for America... (Score:5, Funny)
Just wondering... (Score:5, Funny)
We were ALL impressed (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Re:Understandable (Score:3, Funny)
Here is the secret code (Score:5, Funny)
Up
Down
Down
Left
Right
Left
Right
B
A
START
Human Rights Violation (Score:3, Funny)
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.
Intrigued? (Score:5, Funny)
"Oh look, they're actually succeeding. How intriguing!"
"Hey, wait a sec, they're pointing those missiles at use. I continue to be intrigued!"
the USA didn't do anything about it (Score:5, Funny)
Re:.. And as usual.. (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Thrilling story (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Procurement (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Fortunately for America... (Score:5, Funny)
We're on to you...
Re:Fortunately for America... (Score:2, Funny)
The sound of the joke as it passes over your head.
Re:Fortunately for America... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Thrilling story (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Impotance? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:not enough info (Score:3, Funny)
Rule No.2: See above.
Re:Procurement (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Procurement (Score:2, Funny)
UP UP DOWN DOWN LEFT RIGHT A B SELECT START
[This text brought to you by the "lameness filter" that says I was YELLING too much in this comment.]
Re:Fortunately for America... (Score:3, Funny)
I would demand satisfaction, but it turns out that is complicated via the medium of the internet.
Re:Procurement (Score:2, Funny)
Re:.. And as usual.. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Here is the secret code (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Fortunately for America... (Score:5, Funny)
Pony Up, AU (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Fortunately for America... (Score:2, Funny)
Cricket is easy. You have two teams of eleven.
The team that is in go out to bat, and the team that are out go out to field.
When all of the team that is in get out, the team that's out goes in.
Repeat. Endlessly.
Brockian Ultra Cricket is the same but involves Universes, or something, instead of balls.
What's not like about a sport with a position called 'Silly Mid-Off'?
Paris Air Show (Score:2, Funny)
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...
Re:.. And as usual.. (Score:2, Funny)
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.
"You know. The way Olivia Newton-John talks."
Oh.
Re:Cricket Rules (Score:4, Funny)
(Floating around the net :^)
Re:Fortunately for America... (Score:5, Funny)
If only you knew the true horrors of the origins of cricket..... That's one reason the rest of the universe looks down on humans. To make a game based on the Krikkit Wars.....
Re:Fortunately for America... (Score:5, Funny)
Actually, cricket is an excuse to lie in the sun all day drinking beer while watching other people do gentle excerise. The rules are there so that anyone who questions what you're doing will eventually give up and go away by the time you're explaining the rule for Leg Before Wicket - if not sooner. Anyone who has taken the time to learn the rules enjoys lazing in the sunshine, so you're safe from them.
The only flaw in this otherwise superb idea is that Britain doesn't actually get any sunshine.
Re:Fortunately for America... (Score:2, Funny)
I can assure that quite a good proportion of our country is, in fact, in the middle of a two week drug binge.
Unfortunately, that isn't helpful... (Score:3, Funny)