Originally posted by Nilsen10
Thanks alot Shiva. We used to see ALOT of those snooping around during excersises when i served
My father has a story from back when he served on the USS Staten Island, GB-5 (tells you how far back it was -- before the Navy gave all the icebreakers to the Coast Guard); they'd come across a Soviet destroyer and sent up their helicopter with a guy belted in the door with a camera, and got a beautiful shot of their air-search radar -- filled the frame, perfectly centered, focus and shutter speed perfect -- and, following procedure, sent off a scan (the old 'clamp the image to a cylinder and spin it while the travelling sensor head reads it' predecessor to the fax machine). They got back the standard boilerplate response "Can you get a better image?", to which they replied "I suppose we could ask them if they'll let us take a rubbing of the data plate..." There was no reply to the message; apparently someone had
looked at the transmitted photograph, rather than just the cover sheet, and realized what a stupid response they'd given originally...