Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site lzmi.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!mgnetp!ihnp4!houxm!hogpc!pegasus!lzmi!ziegler From: ziegler@lzmi.UUCP Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: Re: Miscellaneous (Sgt. York gun and radar) Message-ID: <242@lzmi.UUCP> Date: Thu, 2-Aug-84 19:41:13 EDT Article-I.D.: lzmi.242 Posted: Thu Aug 2 19:41:13 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 4-Aug-84 01:43:11 EDT References: <871@trwrba.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Information Systems, Lincroft, NJ Lines: 11 > During other tests, Heilig acknowoledged, the York radar > system ignored moving air targets and instead identified large, > nearby buildings as targets." But those buildings are so much easier to hit! Actually, this is the perfect weapon if you happen to have enemies hiding in buildings and friendly aircraft flying above. They should have deployed it in Beirut. Seriously, though that sounds like a reversed conditional in the "bird filter". So much for quality control and reliability in real-time programming...