How are connected to the internet?

If it’s via a direct connection to a network (such as vodafone etc) then much like a mobile phone, the signal could simply be triangulated via the signal towers?

If you connect to your home network then it’s possible it is finding your position from your ip address.

Either that or Google simply ignored you 😀

Hitting them is one thing, flattening them and anything else within 10 miles with a nuclear missile is another.

Reminds me of a darwin award I heard of;

‘ A homeowner was doing some welding on the roof of his house at Port Macquarie in New South Wales. He had problems with his oxyacetylene tanks slipping, so he decided to tack weld them to the roofing iron. That was the last thing he ever did. When I passed the house the next day, there wasn’t much left of the roof on that side of the house.’

From: http://www.darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin2003-09.html

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Can’t say I’ve seen the original TV series or even read the book, but I found it very enjoyable.

I don’t believe we’ll ever come across such things as these so-called “Stealth Pods” what Boeing proposed to India for the F/A-18. To me I see that as a step back rather than an “improvment”. Why fit a pod to house A/A missiles when it’d be limited to say Mach 0.8 or whatever due to design when the missile itself can reach Mach 4+?

Not quite sure what you are getting at here, the stealth pods are essentially just a carry box for the missile, intended to augment other LO features on the aircraft. The missile would simply eject from the pod like it would from any other weapons bay, then fly normally.

As someone with no experience in aircraft engineering, I realise this might just be an impractical suggestion, but just how difficult would it be to just rip out the F-22 oxygen system and put in one from another type?

Surely after 4 months they must be getting closer to some workable solution?

tbh I wouldn’t have thought re-building military aviation will be high on the list of priorities for the new government. I don’t think Lybia has any significant external threats, so they will probably be focusing on internal security, focusing on a small helicopter and reconnaissance force (much the same as Iraq and Afghanistan), for the next few years.

Assuming anything of the old equipment has survived, it was mostly if not all Russian iirc? Can’t see why they wouldn’t go back there for many of their needs, although I’m sure France would be more keen than ever to sell a few Rafales :diablo:

I think they’ll build up a helicopter force of Mi-171s, light recon/training aircraft, then look for some cheap multi-role fighters.