John Currin (JC) posted KMS Admiral Graf Spee "fake" turret ,making appearance similar to English (friendly) cruiser at long range 1939/11/27 https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-7ELrWQa5j70/V-sZRADi57I/AAAAAAAGQ9c/wa_Nr-2hPOUruqManYI6aB9D7e7M1RjVgCJoC/tumblr_nzqowdSf0C1tp71ino2_400.jpg?imgmax=1024
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KMS Admiral Graf Spee "fake" turret ,making appearance similar to English (friendly) cruiser at long range 1939/11/27.
KMS Admiral Graf Spee "fake" turret ,making appearance similar to English (friendly) cruiser at long range 1939/11/27
John Currin (JC) posted KMS Admiral Graf Spee "fake" turret ,making appearance similar to English (friendly) cruiser at long range 1939/11/27 https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-7ELrWQa5j70/V-sZRADi57I/AAAAAAAGQ9c/wa_Nr-2hPOUruqManYI6aB9D7e7M1RjVgCJoC/tumblr_nzqowdSf0C1tp71ino2_400.jpg?imgmax=1024
Originally shared by +Dave “Deplorable” Lamberson
KMS Admiral Graf Spee "fake" turret ,making appearance similar to English (friendly) cruiser at long range 1939/11/27.
September 26th, 1944 – USS McCoy Reynolds (DE 440) sinks Japanese submarine I-175 northeast of Palaus
John Currin (JC) posted September 26th, 1944 – USS McCoy Reynolds (DE 440) sinks Japanese submarine I-175 northeast of Palaus https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-st1R__RUw6s/V-lbca00yEI/AAAAAAAAY20/jCb18AJKWtMPFCfT8Jetw5a11XuxoNoRQCJoC/5eb2cdc3-f21e-4042-abb1-3a21c2a93631?imgmax=1024
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September 26th, 1944 – USS McCoy Reynolds (DE 440) sinks Japanese submarine I-175 northeast of Palaus
John Currin (JC) posted September 26th, 1944 – USS McCoy Reynolds (DE 440) sinks Japanese submarine I-175 northeast of Palaus https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-st1R__RUw6s/V-lbca00yEI/AAAAAAAAY20/jCb18AJKWtMPFCfT8Jetw5a11XuxoNoRQCJoC/5eb2cdc3-f21e-4042-abb1-3a21c2a93631?imgmax=1024
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The forward-deployed Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS McCampbell (DDG 85) launches chaff during a live-fire training exercise
John Currin (JC) posted The forward-deployed Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS McCampbell (DDG 85) launches chaff during a live-fire training exercise http://img.youtube.com/vi/4mINw590RSU/0.jpg
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Chaff, originally called Window by the British, and Düppel by the Second World War era German Luftwaffe (from the Berlin suburb where it was first developed), is a radar countermeasure in which aircraft or other targets spread a cloud of small, thin pieces of aluminum, metallized glass fibre or plastic, which either appears as a cluster of primary targets on radar screens or swamps the screen with multiple returns.
Modern armed forces use chaff (in naval applications, for instance, using short-range SRBOC rockets) to distract radar-guided missiles from their targets. Most military aircraft and warships have chaff dispensing systems for self-defe
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