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(BBC-US)   Five O'Clock Charlie reaches Seoul, causing great anxiety in Gen. Clayton, Col. Flagg, and many other of Sidney Freeman's patients   (bbc.com) divider line
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Marcus Aurelius [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2022-12-26 11:18:55 AM  
I'm pretty sure you can buy those at Hobby King.
 
kb7rky
2022-12-26 12:13:32 PM  
Well, since the Korean War is still, technically, ongoing (last I checked), I say we mobilize a few hundred thousand troops, and open a second front in World War III.

Nothing like wasting precious money on wartime spoils, is there?
 
bisi
2022-12-26 12:14:19 PM  
For this picture, South Korean specialists have already rendered the drone inoperable by removing the wings and rubber band:

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Hinged
2022-12-26 12:15:47 PM  

bisi: For this picture, South Korean specialists have already rendered the drone inoperable by removing the wings and rubber band:

[ichef.bbci.co.uk image 850x478]


Looks deadly.
 
toraque [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2022-12-26 12:16:14 PM  
What kind of rational being would take a look at how the Ukrainians are farking up a country three times their size with donated NATO weapons, and think "I want a piece of that, too!"

/Yes, I know neither North Korea or Russia are rational actors
 
adamatari
2022-12-26 12:17:14 PM  

Marcus Aurelius: I'm pretty sure you can buy those at Hobby King.


That's the brilliant part, just put a camera or a bomb on it and all the fancy air defense suddenly is spinning their wheels. Hard to find, cheap to make, if you lose a few it doesn't even matter. Great recon tool.
 
bedonkadonk [TotalFark]
2022-12-26 12:17:43 PM  
FTFA:
"Jets and attack helicopters were deployed, but 100 rounds fired from helicopters failed to shoot them down.
A South Korean military official said they had since lost track of all the drones, but that they were no longer in flight."
 
ZMugg [TotalFark]
2022-12-26 12:20:10 PM  

kb7rky: Well, since the Korean War is still, technically, ongoing (last I checked), I say we mobilize a few hundred thousand troops, and open a second front in World War III.

Nothing like wasting precious money on wartime spoils, is there?


The last time America declared war was during World War II. The Korean War, the War in Vietnam, and the extended campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq were never stamped with congressional declarations of war.
 
bedonkadonk [TotalFark]
2022-12-26 12:24:36 PM  

ZMugg: kb7rky: Well, since the Korean War is still, technically, ongoing (last I checked), I say we mobilize a few hundred thousand troops, and open a second front in World War III.

Nothing like wasting precious money on wartime spoils, is there?

The last time America declared war was during World War II. The Korean War, the War in Vietnam, and the extended campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq were never stamped with congressional declarations of war.


My 90 year old father served in Korea. He said the only conflict he had over there was with the ma·ma-san who tried to rip him off.
 
puckrock2000
2022-12-26 12:29:20 PM  
Sidney Freedman, subby.

/though he was called "Milton Freedman" in his first appearance
 
SN1987a goes boom
2022-12-26 12:38:09 PM  
Make fun of Best Korea all you want but it should be concerning that South Korea was unable to do much:

Jets and attack helicopters were deployed, but 100 rounds fired from helicopters failed to shoot them down.

A South Korean military official said they had since lost track of all the drones, but that they were no longer in flight.

One of the South Korean warplanes involved in the operation, a KA-1 light attack aircraft, later crashed, but its two pilots escaped unhurt.

These chowderheads are testing the waters and the response seems luke warm at best.
 
vogonity
2022-12-26 12:40:24 PM  
I wonder if Sidney Freeman knows Sidney Freedman, the psychiatrist character on MASH.
 
Priapetic [BareFark]
2022-12-26 12:40:48 PM  
Japan already did it,

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fu-Go_balloon_bomb
 
CheatCommando [TotalFark]
2022-12-26 12:45:19 PM  

bedonkadonk: ZMugg: kb7rky: Well, since the Korean War is still, technically, ongoing (last I checked), I say we mobilize a few hundred thousand troops, and open a second front in World War III.

Nothing like wasting precious money on wartime spoils, is there?

The last time America declared war was during World War II. The Korean War, the War in Vietnam, and the extended campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq were never stamped with congressional declarations of war.

My 90 year old father served in Korea. He said the only conflict he had over there was with the ma·ma-san who tried to rip him off.


A friends dad was at Choisin. His experience was different than your Dads.
 
Sexy Jesus [recently expired TotalFark]
2022-12-26 12:46:15 PM  
Military drone. Lol. Only to a cargo cult military. Nothing that size is a threat to even the BTS Army, except maybe for recon but I would wonder if it even has the ability to stream realtime, they probably send some poor bastard over the border to find it and retrieve the Zip disk while they hold his family hostage.
 
SamFlagg [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2022-12-26 12:49:50 PM  
For the record, reports of my anxiety have been greatly overstated.
 
bisi
2022-12-26 12:55:18 PM  

SN1987a goes boom: Make fun of Best Korea all you want but it should be concerning that South Korea was unable to do much


Huh, turns out small objects are really hard to track and shoot down. That's not exactly news.
Just ask Russia.
 
R.O.U.S
2022-12-26 12:57:37 PM  
I'm pretty sure I got a fancier toy plane for Christmas... in 1989.
 
ZMugg [TotalFark]
2022-12-26 1:09:22 PM  
For the Younglings:
th.bing.comView Full Size

A Ryan PT-22 painted with North Korean markings was used for Charlie's plane.
 
fat boy
2022-12-26 1:10:43 PM  
Dad was trained as a right gunner on B-29s, He was just a couple days from going to Korea when they called it off.
 
bedonkadonk [TotalFark]
2022-12-26 1:15:01 PM  

CheatCommando: bedonkadonk: ZMugg: kb7rky: Well, since the Korean War is still, technically, ongoing (last I checked), I say we mobilize a few hundred thousand troops, and open a second front in World War III.

Nothing like wasting precious money on wartime spoils, is there?

The last time America declared war was during World War II. The Korean War, the War in Vietnam, and the extended campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq were never stamped with congressional declarations of war.

My 90 year old father served in Korea. He said the only conflict he had over there was with the ma·ma-san who tried to rip him off.

A friends dad was at Choisin. His experience was different than your Dads.


My Dad served in the Army from November 1953 to February 1955. He was a PFC Radio Operator.
 
kb7rky
2022-12-26 1:16:30 PM  

R.O.U.S: I'm pretty sure I got a fancier toy plane for Christmas... in 1989.


Hell, I got an even fancier one...in 1979...
 
stuffy
2022-12-26 1:34:46 PM  

kb7rky: Well, since the Korean War is still, technically, ongoing (last I checked), I say we mobilize a few hundred thousand troops, and open a second front in World War III.

Nothing like wasting precious money on wartime spoils, is there?


th.bing.comView Full Size

Respond in kind.
 
Sexy Jesus [recently expired TotalFark]
2022-12-26 1:45:04 PM  

stuffy: kb7rky: Well, since the Korean War is still, technically, ongoing (last I checked), I say we mobilize a few hundred thousand troops, and open a second front in World War III.

Nothing like wasting precious money on wartime spoils, is there?

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Respond in kind.


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stationalpha5
2022-12-26 2:02:55 PM  
A serious "bang-bang" war with South Korea will not go the way Best Korea hopes. Soldiers in the North have to spend a good chunk of their time farming just to feed themselves; soldiers in the ROK are pretty well trained, and their officers are talented. The South has a modern military, and the support of a lot of countries; the North has... has... a lot of rocky terrain with which to arm slingshots?

/Stationed in South Korea three separate times (in three separate decades, damn I'm old) and had a great time each time. That's what they tell me, anyway; there was a lot of soju involved.
 
zeroflight222
2022-12-26 2:08:56 PM  

stationalpha5: A serious "bang-bang" war with South Korea will not go the way Best Korea hopes. Soldiers in the North have to spend a good chunk of their time farming just to feed themselves; soldiers in the ROK are pretty well trained, and their officers are talented. The South has a modern military, and the support of a lot of countries; the North has... has... a lot of rocky terrain with which to arm slingshots?

/Stationed in South Korea three separate times (in three separate decades, damn I'm old) and had a great time each time. That's what they tell me, anyway; there was a lot of soju involved.


That's assuming traditional war.  If NK ever does anything serious, I think it'll be with remote things like rockets or drones. They risk facing mass defection and overwhelming force with any kind of ground work.
 
jjorsett
2022-12-26 2:12:06 PM  
The drones may be a joke, but the fact that they were able to evade the SK air defenses BOTH WAYS isn't. Ukraine is the other test case where cheapo drones are showing that air defense needs to evolve to counter this new threat.

Along those lines, I was reading some commentary about Russian "magic air defense" that always seems to shoot down Ukrainian drones but only as they arrive at the targets. The latest case is an attack on Engels Air Base in Russia, where the Russians "shot down" the drones and the falling debris just happened to kill 3 unlucky soldiers. 600 kilometers in a straight line from Ukraine with no trouble, then BOOM just when over the base. Riiiight.
 
HoratioGates
2022-12-26 2:13:50 PM  
My most hated FB post of all time was about this time of year.

"Santa Clause's sleigh was shot down over the Sea of Japan.  It spun in. There were no survivors."
 
stationalpha5
2022-12-26 2:20:46 PM  

zeroflight222: stationalpha5: A serious "bang-bang" war with South Korea will not go the way Best Korea hopes. Soldiers in the North have to spend a good chunk of their time farming just to feed themselves; soldiers in the ROK are pretty well trained, and their officers are talented. The South has a modern military, and the support of a lot of countries; the North has... has... a lot of rocky terrain with which to arm slingshots?

That's assuming traditional war.  If NK ever does anything serious, I think it'll be with remote things like rockets or drones. They risk facing mass defection and overwhelming force with any kind of ground work.


Potentially, but I'd say that if BK went with standoff bombardment, the South would go North to end it; they have the means. I don't think BK has the ability to do anything but some flavor of traditional war for any length of time, and anything asymmetric requires freedom of thought and action at low levels, and they only have so many SOF/guerilla trained (to my understanding). Honestly I hope BK implodes sooner rather than later, and the South can work on absorbing them back into the world (China will have views on that, of course). Korea's a peninsula, and that's a lot of beachfront condos.
 
doctorguilty
2022-12-26 2:54:50 PM  
"And just remember, the operating room is open for your dining and dancing pleasure."
 
indy_kid
2022-12-26 3:18:07 PM  

SN1987a goes boom: Make fun of Best Korea all you want but it should be concerning that South Korea was unable to do much:

Jets and attack helicopters were deployed, but 100 rounds fired from helicopters failed to shoot them down.

A South Korean military official said they had since lost track of all the drones, but that they were no longer in flight.

One of the South Korean warplanes involved in the operation, a KA-1 light attack aircraft, later crashed, but its two pilots escaped unhurt.

These chowderheads are testing the waters and the response seems luke warm at best.


Given that the go-to weapon for the NORKs would be tube artillery (Seoul is well within range of hundreds of guns), I don't see Kim putting that much effort into drones capable of doing extensive damage.

Any army is going to have trouble trying to shoot down the equivalent of a DJI drone, but Ukraine has been very effective at knocking down the larger Iranian Shahed drones.
 
Sexy Jesus [recently expired TotalFark]
2022-12-26 3:24:04 PM  

stationalpha5: A serious "bang-bang" war with South Korea will not go the way Best Korea hopes. Soldiers in the North have to spend a good chunk of their time farming just to feed themselves; soldiers in the ROK are pretty well trained, and their officers are talented. The South has a modern military, and the support of a lot of countries; the North has... has... a lot of rocky terrain with which to arm slingshots?

/Stationed in South Korea three separate times (in three separate decades, damn I'm old) and had a great time each time. That's what they tell me, anyway; there was a lot of soju involved.


Soju were saying...
 
Exile On Beale Street [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2022-12-26 4:43:57 PM  
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Bondith
2022-12-26 4:46:49 PM  
Ladies and gentlemen, take my advice.
Pull down your pants and slide on the ice.
 
corq [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2022-12-26 5:04:13 PM  

SN1987a goes boom: Make fun of Best Korea all you want but it should be concerning that South Korea was unable to do much:

Jets and attack helicopters were deployed, but 100 rounds fired from helicopters failed to shoot them down.

A South Korean military official said they had since lost track of all the drones, but that they were no longer in flight.

One of the South Korean warplanes involved in the operation, a KA-1 light attack aircraft, later crashed, but its two pilots escaped unhurt.

These chowderheads are testing the waters and the response seems luke warm at best.


All of you cranes guys are busy right now but if they could spare an advisor to send those guys have gotten pretty good with knocking out drones.
 
corq [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2022-12-26 5:05:03 PM  

corq: SN1987a goes boom: Make fun of Best Korea all you want but it should be concerning that South Korea was unable to do much:

Jets and attack helicopters were deployed, but 100 rounds fired from helicopters failed to shoot them down.

A South Korean military official said they had since lost track of all the drones, but that they were no longer in flight.

One of the South Korean warplanes involved in the operation, a KA-1 light attack aircraft, later crashed, but its two pilots escaped unhurt.

These chowderheads are testing the waters and the response seems luke warm at best.

All of you cranes guys are busy right now but if they could spare an advisor to send those guys have gotten pretty good with knocking out drones.



Ukraine's* ... Dictation fail
 
Combustion [TotalFark]
2022-12-26 8:17:06 PM  
I love that even the most absurd comedian cannot even come close to how POOR the Norkies are. Even if The Trailer Park Boys went to North Korea, they'd be anointed the ruling elite immediately.
 
Missicat [TotalFark]
2022-12-27 3:10:44 AM  

bedonkadonk: CheatCommando: bedonkadonk: ZMugg: kb7rky: Well, since the Korean War is still, technically, ongoing (last I checked), I say we mobilize a few hundred thousand troops, and open a second front in World War III.

Nothing like wasting precious money on wartime spoils, is there?

The last time America declared war was during World War II. The Korean War, the War in Vietnam, and the extended campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq were never stamped with congressional declarations of war.

My 90 year old father served in Korea. He said the only conflict he had over there was with the ma·ma-san who tried to rip him off.

A friends dad was at Choisin. His experience was different than your Dads.

My Dad served in the Army from November 1953 to February 1955. He was a PFC Radio Operator.


My dad served in a MASH unit as company clerk. Yes, my dad was Radar.
MASH was one of his favorite shows.
 
Fara Clark [TotalFark]
2022-12-27 4:17:30 AM  
I think SK should buy a bunch of DJI drones. Send them all on a suicide mission over the border. Make best Korea track 10000 Chinese made drones.
 
jook
2022-12-27 5:18:11 AM  

Missicat: bedonkadonk: CheatCommando: bedonkadonk: ZMugg: kb7rky: Well, since the Korean War is still, technically, ongoing (last I checked), I say we mobilize a few hundred thousand troops, and open a second front in World War III.

Nothing like wasting precious money on wartime spoils, is there?

The last time America declared war was during World War II. The Korean War, the War in Vietnam, and the extended campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq were never stamped with congressional declarations of war.

My 90 year old father served in Korea. He said the only conflict he had over there was with the ma·ma-san who tried to rip him off.

A friends dad was at Choisin. His experience was different than your Dads.

My Dad served in the Army from November 1953 to February 1955. He was a PFC Radio Operator.

My dad served in a MASH unit as company clerk. Yes, my dad was Radar.
MASH was one of his favorite shows.


CSB: There's a guy where I live that drove a cab with whom I rode a few times, and he looked astonishingly like an older Gary Burghoff. I only knew the driver by his nickname (Radar, obviously). Apparently he was in the military in the 70s and they did a look-a-like contests of MASH characters. He won, and his prize was getting to meet Gary Burghoff. It's a cool story for a short drunken cab ride home.
 
CheatCommando [TotalFark]
2022-12-27 7:19:45 AM  

Missicat: bedonkadonk: CheatCommando: bedonkadonk: ZMugg: kb7rky: Well, since the Korean War is still, technically, ongoing (last I checked), I say we mobilize a few hundred thousand troops, and open a second front in World War III.

Nothing like wasting precious money on wartime spoils, is there?

The last time America declared war was during World War II. The Korean War, the War in Vietnam, and the extended campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq were never stamped with congressional declarations of war.

My 90 year old father served in Korea. He said the only conflict he had over there was with the ma·ma-san who tried to rip him off.

A friends dad was at Choisin. His experience was different than your Dads.

My Dad served in the Army from November 1953 to February 1955. He was a PFC Radio Operator.

My dad served in a MASH unit as company clerk. Yes, my dad was Radar.
MASH was one of his favorite shows.


My Dad is as 1A after college so to avoid being sent to Korea, his physics professor recommended he sign up for the Public Health Service  as a health physicist and get a nice safe job.  He got in and his first few postings were to the balmy Pacific: as a safety officer for the bomb tests.

He ended up putting in 30 years and retiring as an O6, so I guess it wasn't all bad.
 
bedonkadonk [TotalFark]
2022-12-27 7:45:22 AM  

Missicat: bedonkadonk: CheatCommando: bedonkadonk: ZMugg: kb7rky: Well, since the Korean War is still, technically, ongoing (last I checked), I say we mobilize a few hundred thousand troops, and open a second front in World War III.

Nothing like wasting precious money on wartime spoils, is there?

The last time America declared war was during World War II. The Korean War, the War in Vietnam, and the extended campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq were never stamped with congressional declarations of war.

My 90 year old father served in Korea. He said the only conflict he had over there was with the ma·ma-san who tried to rip him off.

A friends dad was at Choisin. His experience was different than your Dads.

My Dad served in the Army from November 1953 to February 1955. He was a PFC Radio Operator.

My dad served in a MASH unit as company clerk. Yes, my dad was Radar.
MASH was one of his favorite shows.


Are there any good stories he shared with you from his time in Korea?
 
Missicat [TotalFark]
2022-12-27 8:50:44 AM  

bedonkadonk: Missicat: bedonkadonk: CheatCommando: bedonkadonk: ZMugg: kb7rky: Well, since the Korean War is still, technically, ongoing (last I checked), I say we mobilize a few hundred thousand troops, and open a second front in World War III.

Nothing like wasting precious money on wartime spoils, is there?

The last time America declared war was during World War II. The Korean War, the War in Vietnam, and the extended campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq were never stamped with congressional declarations of war.

My 90 year old father served in Korea. He said the only conflict he had over there was with the ma·ma-san who tried to rip him off.

A friends dad was at Choisin. His experience was different than your Dads.

My Dad served in the Army from November 1953 to February 1955. He was a PFC Radio Operator.

My dad served in a MASH unit as company clerk. Yes, my dad was Radar.
MASH was one of his favorite shows.

Are there any good stories he shared with you from his time in Korea?


Yes!! He claims the episode where BJ first shows up and they make Radar an "officer" was stolen from his experiences. Apparently he and his buddies did something similar. He also said the food was as bad as portrayed, but the nurses weren't as pretty.
I know there were others, just don't remember at the moment.
 
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