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    Official US Army training film on countering the T-62

    in Combat Mission Cold War

    Posted · Edited by Rice

    1 hour ago, John Kettler said:

    Rice,

    First of all, "Dr. Joseph Backofen" was not a Doctor, he was a contributor to Armor Magazine. Second of all, the sources you linked have nothing to do with Joseph Backofen. Also the sources have nothing to do with what we are discussing. Also, a War Thunder Reddit post is not a credible source.

    1 hour ago, John Kettler said:

    At some point, if I happen to think about it, I'll post on FB some SSN hidden docs showing I did work at Hughes and Rockwell, did work on ERIS, etc. If you don't want to believe what I tell you after that, then I shall continue to post on what I do know, but you're welcome not to read it. 

    Please do this.

    1 hour ago, John Kettler said:

    m on FB under my own name and Twitter under at John_Kettler.

    I don't doubt you're a real human being, I doubt you were ever a "Soviet Threat Analyst".

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    Official US Army training film on countering the T-62

    in Combat Mission Cold War

    Posted

    2 hours ago, John Kettler said:

    Rice,


    Almost everything I did during my 11+ years was classified, so I have little to show on that score. They don't, after all, let you take either classified or Company Proprietary documents with you when you leave.

    I couldn't find your name, assuming it truly is John Kettler, anywhere on what you provided. You have no way of proving your experience. Regardless of the validity, you still rival sources with none of your own. It's been brought up multiple times, but you are adamant of the existence of a 76mm HEAT shell that could frontally penetrate an Abrams, which is completely ridiculous and has never been backed up with any sources or evidence other than your "experiences". Anyhow the problem is, you can't prove you are who you say you are, and you claim to be a source of a ton of information, much of which is dubious at best. So, do you have any proof of who you are?

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    Official US Army training film on countering the T-62

    in Combat Mission Cold War

    Posted

    6 hours ago, John Kettler said:

    Thought I'd covered my credentials many times before, over a period of 21 years, but shall do so again.

    Joined Hughes Aircraft Company, Missile Systems Group (now part of Raytheon) on Valentine's Day 1978 and worked there through September 12, 1984. My job was Soviet Threat Analyst, but my official HR slot was Mathematical Analyst. When I got my degree, I got the even more giggle inducing slot of Statistical Analyst. Was the only full time Threat guy in Operations Analysis. Worked threat for Phoenix, AMRAAM, Maverick,TOW, ASSAULT BREAKER, WASP, Anti-SUAWACS Missile, Roland, etc. Anything and everything Soviet and Warsaw Pact weapon and capabilities, current or projected, fell under my ambit, be they hand grenades or ASATs. Worked hand in hand with our weaponeer, a physicist, and an electronics engineer who had a CIA sponsor (whom I met personally at Langley) and functioned as a back door on up to date threat info. The latter individual and I put the highly accomplished program manager for that missile into a state of white as copier paper shock when we showed him conclusively his missile would NOT be able to home in on the SUAWACS radar because the programmed frequencies were wrong.

    Not only did I support the work in my department but in other departments, and part of my job involved working on new applications and capabilities (such as a special SEAD version of the Maverick) for various Hughes Missile Systems Group weapons. Was also consulted by Dr. Hans Maurer, a Project Paperclip scientist who was our CTO. The result of one of those discussions was the Wireless TOW, which grew out of discussions of guidance mechanisms on several Soviet ATGMs. During my time at Hughes, I briefed an array of customers, including a branch chief of the US Army Foreign Sciece and Technology Center (FSTC). Twice he tried to hire me, only to be done in by hiring freezes. While at Hughes my investigations led to discovering critical vulnerabilities on one of our missiles. This got me shut down both by Hughes management and the customer. Was later quietly informed a fix had been produced and implemented.

    Started at North American Rockwell, North American Aerospace Operations on September 24, 1989. Was originally hired to be a Member of the Technical Staff I, Soviet Strategic Analyst, but was done in by a reorganization while I was waiting to come in. Thus, wound up doing nauseating (ever seen a pic of a one foot diameter blister on someone or faced a nightmare decontamination program in which a CW gassed aircraft keeps outgassing for hours even after decontamination?) Operation and Supportability work on NBC and laser protection for aircraft and crew of the ATF (Advanced Tactical Fighter), the program that eventually yielded the F-22. Worked B1-B Conventional Capabilities, B1-B SA-10 Escape, provided detailed analyses of the composition of Soviet EW/GCI sites, radar types, operating frequencies, etc. Worked on a Stealth CAS (A-10 replacement). This was a SAP (Special Access Program).

    Created and maintained a comprehensive bed down of Soviet and East German aircraft in East Germany, together with all fixed SAMs, filter centers, hardened HQs, etc. As part of a two-man group (the other being Air America's former threat briefer), created a Central American threat laydown for the AC-130U Spooky so dead on that we were told by the customer that validating it would exceed program security level! Was heavily involved with the MPA (Maritime Patrol Aircraft), a program which eventually yielded the super capable P-8 Poseidon.

    One of my major activities a Rockwell was Soviet Threat Analysis for the military versions of the NASP (National AeroSpace Plane) and its endoatmospheric hypersonic versions. The program was an acknowledged SAP, and I held all four clearance levels for these craft. My work involved not just the direct threat side of things, including such concerns as Spetsnaz attacks while on the ground but the Soviet perception side, to include declaratory policy and doctrine. Worked in tandem, chiefly with a physicist who dealt with the nitty gritty aspects of lasers and particle beams weapons. While at Rockwell, was a co-founder of the DEWWG (Directed Energy Weapons Working Group), with particular concerns about the rapidly emerging HPM (High Power Microwave) threat. Sounded the alarm, too about Soviet hyperdimensional Tesla type weaponry (AKA scalar weapons) and associated breakthrough science called energetics.

    The NASP Program Manager, Ed Brown (who earlier in his career helmed the X-15 program), told me that my threat briefings were the "long pole in the tent" for quarterly reviews. If they went well, we were good. Must've known what I was doing, because some lateral thinking I did about ways to hide the NASP once in orbit unmasked a black program when a pair of CIA types popped out of their chairs, demanded to know my source and blurted in front of about 100 people that this was compartmented information. That briefing was so well receivved by the various generals, admirals and suits that it's fair to say they wore my arm out shaking my hand afterwards. Somewhere in all this activity I was promoted to MTS II, and by the time I left, my health in ruins from hyper stress on the job (long story), was MTS III promotable and was offered my own projects and project team. By then, it was way too late.

    Subsequent to leaving Rockwell on June 20, 1989, in the early 1990s I became lead researcher for The Empowerment Project's blockbuster documentary The Panama Deception, which won a stack of fim awards, including an Oscar for Best Documentary. My research activities covered the history of the US in Panama, US covert and overt activities to create an excuse for military intervention, US awareness of and involvement in narcotrafficking and money laundering in Panama, but the real discovery, in terms of evaluating what weapons were employed and what they did, was uncovering multiple evidences that the US combat tested several varieties of HEL (High Energy Laser) weapons there, as well as its use of some sort of chemical weapon.  

    I have no doubt I left out a few things, but it should nevertheless show the depth and breadth of my 11+ year Soviet Threat Analyst career, as well as use of my intelligence analyst capabilities after leaving military aerospace and classified defense work. Suggest, too, that a search under my name might unearth other interesting items, but make sure you don't get the John Kettler who's an air conditioning engineer!

    Regards,

    John Kettler

     

    Prove any of this, please. The issue is that you just claim these things. You have never backed them up once.

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    Official US Army training film on countering the T-62

    in Combat Mission Cold War

    Posted

    I have been on this forum for a while now and one thing that has been crossing my mind a lot after reading more and more of John Kettlers posts is how many times he has claimed to be a Soviet Threat Analysist, yet he has never backed up the claim with any credentials. I would normally not randomly ask someone for their credentials but,  there has been many times where Kettler has said something, or claimed something, then falls back on his claimed experience as evidence when presented with sources that contradict him instead of providing sources himself. This is obviously potentially very harmful to the collective integrity of Combat Mission itself, considering the amount of input this forum has. So @John Kettlerplease provide credentials as to your experience please.

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    Combat Mission Professional

    in Combat Mission - General Discussion

    Posted

    I have CMPE, and after playing a lot of it, testing it, etc, I have come away most shocked with how feature complete and functional the convoy command is. I am absolutely surprised it was never put into Engine 4, and specifically, that there are so many rumors about how non-functional it is. I hope it comes in Engine 5. I wonder what prevented it from becoming a universal feature?

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    CMA Dynamic Campaign: Afghan Dust

    in Combat Mission Afghanistan

    Posted

    Unfortunately the project got put on hold because my life got busy. If I was to run it again, it wouldn't be a Beta test. But I really need to find a more efficient way to run my end of things. A lot of time was spent managing the playing board.

    Maybe if there's interest I would host a public game eventually, thank you everyone for your interest!

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    Struggling with the community

    in Combat Mission - General Discussion

    Posted

    I'd like to address that the Combat Mission discord is probably the fasted growing community for Combat Mission, if not already the biggest. I insist that many of the forum members step off their high horse and try to understand the Discord isn't just a few immature children, but one of the most productive and diverse places that relate to the game. The BFC.com forum, while being an amazing resource, is becoming more and more obsolescent as time moves on. One would benefit from not settling on one means of discourse forever.

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    Pre-orders for Combat Mission Cold War are now open.

    in Combat Mission Cold War

    Posted

    A lot of us use Combat Mission Helper, currently it's the best way to play the game in my opinion. For those who haven't used it; it will send and insert turns from and into your game files for you via dropbox. You can do PEBMs completely hands off. You simply just have to open the game and click play then it's sent. I hope Slitherines servers work like this. The ease of play and speed of turns going back and forth is a unbelievably huge QOL improvement.

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