FedEx wants to put anti-missile lasers on some of its planes (Page 2/2) Raydar JAN 16, 05:07 PM quote Originally posted by blackrams: Based on the increasing loss of packages, robberies, carjackings, package thefts by porch pirates and such, that might be a good idea. Rams They're probably doing this to defend themselves from all their pissed off customers. Their service is so crappy that they've actually made the news on two different Atlanta TV stations. Their local hub in Austell is (un)affectionately referred to as "Lost Hell". williegoat JAN 16, 05:16 PM quote Originally posted by Raydar: They're probably doing this to defend themselves from all their pissed off customers. Their service is so crappy that they've actually made the news on two different Atlanta TV stations. Their local hub in Austell is (un)affectionately referred to as "Lost Hell". This is the truth. FedUp gets it right about as often as Buster Brown gets it wrong, and I am not exaggerating. MidEngineManiac JAN 16, 05:29 PM quote Originally posted by Raydar: They're probably doing this to defend themselves from all their pissed off customers. Their service is so crappy that they've actually made the news on two different Atlanta TV stations. Their local hub in Austell is (un)affectionately referred to as "Lost Hell". If those hubs work the same way as they do here, 90% of the staff is revolving-door, part-time, minimum wage via a temp agency. People who couldn't hold a regular job mopping floors without screwing it up. Ya get the quality you pay for. randye JAN 16, 05:57 PM quote Originally posted by Hudini: I've seen a ZSU-23-4 in Iraq at night and it was a damn impressive light show. If he turned on the radar I didn't get a warning, but no matter as we had Wild Weasels just hoping for a shot and EF-111A Spark Varks jamming the bejeesus out of anything hostile. What I know of the "Shilka" is that it's a very nasty little piece of hardware. Soviet doctrine had them as organic ADA for armor units. Just curious how the Iraqis were using them. Hudini JAN 16, 08:37 PM I only noticed one and it was located near the target area. It was spraying rounds in a figure 8 type pattern because it was shooting blind. It was easy enough to see so that you could get out of the way. They were somewhat of a threat the first week as we went in at 200' at night. Typically AAA cannot lower their gun angles to our bombing height. Everything was shooting over us in the target area. The only time a F-111 took damage was from a bird strike. All those guns scared the hell out of the birds. Our bombs didn't help either. After the first week we started bombing from higher altitudes as the threat changed. Missile batteries wouldn't turn on their radar because they would get hammered by a HARM from the Wild Weasels. And the EF-111A would jam them even if they did. Their aircraft were all running to Iran. I never want to do that again..... randye JAN 16, 09:54 PM quote Originally posted by Hudini: I never want to do that again..... Thanks for doing it though.