Posts by nbc 24 publicly visible posts • joined 29 Jul 2008
A simpler solution would be to put boots back on the ground, engage with people and to listen to them. Everyone knows who the local bad apples are and what they're capable of, you just have to ask.
This could also be a good first step for Plod to regain some of the trust it has lost over the last twenty years.
"Engineers will use their repair window to rectify the power-phasing problem, which emanates from a transformer that was accidentally produced by an engineer on the afternoon of 17 November."
I keep reading this sentence and I'm still none the wiser. Did an engineer really produce a transformer?
Which one?
Out of respect for Mr Foley's family I have not watched the video.
However, as this is just the latest in a long list of jihadist beheading videos I'm interested to find out why this one has received the publicity it has whilst previous videos have received scant attention from the media or the Met.
Perhaps the Met's attempt to brand everyone as "terrorist" is merely a positioning exercise for greater funding and future surveillance.
>>The bar armour has nothing to do with stand-off distances or disrupting copper jets or anything like that. This is incorrect reporting that is sadly being perpetuated by the, normally pretty accurate, El Reg.
The bar armour has everything to do with stand-off. (See below).
>>The bars of the bar armour are spaced in such a way that the bars deactivate certain types of RPG fuse resulting in the warhead not being able to function, they can also deform the cone of the shaped charge prior to detonation.
The RPG fuse is a piezoelectric impact fuze, so the only way to "deactivate" the fuse is for the warhead to be jammed between two bars or be deflected from its previous flight path. Jamming the warhead between two bars is limited as the RPG warhead currently in use has an igniferous self-destruct, which, from memory will function 9 or 10 seconds after firing.
>>The stand-off distance for a shaped charge BTW is several feet or more, not the foot or so that the bar armour stands off at.
Bollocks. The RPG is designed so that its optimal stand-off distance is equal to the distance from the tip of the warhead to the front face of the cone.
Robert Heinlein said:
When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives.
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