Wicky Posted November 5, 2019 Share Posted November 5, 2019 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Combatintman Posted December 8, 2019 Share Posted December 8, 2019 Pretty good stuff - I know a few ex-BRIXMIS guys and I used to work in the counter-SOXMIS branch in 1989-1990, a really interesting job. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Kettler Posted January 13, 2020 Share Posted January 13, 2020 (edited) Combatintman, Ever hear one about the SOXMIS that absolutely refused to leave--until our guys brought in an M113 VADS and pointed it directly at the offending vehicle? If you've got any good stories you can share of your own experiences in counter-SOXMIS, please do. Here's the full BRIXMIS doc.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dQfp8KUdYA Regards, John Kettler Edited January 14, 2020 by John Kettler 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Kettler Posted January 14, 2020 Share Posted January 14, 2020 Combatintman, Here's a little intel morsel from the Cold War. When I was at Hughes Missile Systems Group, our weaponeer, a physicist, was the keeper of the JMEMs (Joint Munition Effectiveness Manuals). These were huge orange binders, essentially target killing cookbooks in which a defined target/target array was evaluated against a range of munitions. Knowing the pertinent delivery variables, guidance performance and so forth generated Ph, and from separate (not integrated) modeling and tests of frag penetration, blast and sometimes fire, came Pk. When I was there, for several years the SA-8/GECKO SAM system, though amphibious, was deemed to be lightly armored. Turned out, though, we were wrong, and it was British Intelligence which got the goods--by photographing the hull of one (in a parade) with an IR camera. The imagery revealed the vehicle was essentially nothing but a fully enclosed DUKW into which the entire SAM system was installed. Another one was that the British caught a Soviet missile cruiser with its bow SSN-3/SHADDOCK launch container opened. For ease of maintenance, the missile type was prominently stenciled on the inside of the tube lid, including the ones showing where the nukes were! Regards, John Kettler 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erwin Posted January 14, 2020 Share Posted January 14, 2020 Always thought that the idea was to detain... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Combatintman Posted January 17, 2020 Share Posted January 17, 2020 On 1/14/2020 at 1:43 AM, Erwin said: Always thought that the idea was to detain... Correct although detentions were few and far between - not for the want of trying though. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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