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Don't forget the Big Ones, Pat, the Big Ones
Boats
Hmmm... I can only assume you mean the...
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... and less we forget...
+ North American Autonetics "AN/ASB-12 Bomb Directing Set" which included:
- multi-mode radar
- radar computer with an associated "Pilot's Projected Display Indicator (PPDI)"
(the first "head-up displays" to be fitted to an operational aircraft)
- TV camera under the nose for daylight target sighting
(with the imagery passed to the pilot's PPDI and the back-seater's radar display)
- "REINS" ("Radar-Equipped Inertial Navigation System")
- "Versatile Digital Analyser (VERDAN)" (one of the first solid-state computer systems
ever fitted to an aircraft) aka "Very Effective Replacement for a Dumb-Ass Navigator"
+ KA-51A/B forward-looking oblique angle optical camera
+ KA-50A, KA-51A, or KA-62A vertical optical camera
+ AN/ALQ-61 Electronic Reconnaissance System (AN/ALQ-61 was an "electronic intelligence (ELINT)"
system that would pick up radar emissions and pin down their coordinates, frequency, and pulse
pattern; data was recorded on magnetic tape)
+ KA-58A panoramic camera for medium- to high-altitude work
+ KA-57A panoramic camera for low-altitude work
(the cameras shot through prisms in the canoe that could be pivoted to
permit shots straight down or from side to side)
+ AN/AAS-21 infrared sensor (provided a continuous film strip of thermal targets,
such as hidden trucks, over a field of view 140 degrees wide)
+ AN/APD-7 "side looking airborne radar (SLAR)" system
which permitted all-weather, day-night imaging
+ AN/ALQ-21 (Integrated Radio Frequency Countermeasure System)
...and by the way... the Vigilante was also one of the first aircraft to have a "fly by wire" flight control system. Its design and configuration was believed to be a major influence on one of the world's most famous postwar interceptors: the Soviet MiG-25 'Foxbat'. The MiG-25 was apparently heavily influenced by the A-5's design.
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The three best things in life are... a good landing, a good orgasm, and a good bowel movement. The night carrier landing during a storm is one of the few opportunities in life where you get to experience all three at the same time...
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I know just how they feel!..
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...another old fart here named Pat O'Shea, aka RA-5C, or simply, Rabbit...
Gee thanks... I think?
Well, Byron is correct that I have been around for a while. One of the original Beta Testers back when it was 360 and they were in Bryant TX in the warehouse. Used to do 3 and 4 hours of modem transfers at night so as to test a fix before it was pressed. Ah!.. the good old days...
Former Naval Aviator who had the privilage to fly one of the fastest and "meanest" lookings aircraft the Navy ever owned... The North American RA-5C Vigilante.
Now I am an IT Administrator for an Air Force Facility in Northern Virginia.
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...I'm Surface Warfare, not one of them spam in the can bubbleheads...
Oh?.. so you have your "water wings"...
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Well... all things considered... I think this may work out fine!
Just one problem... the titles/ranks? Is there a setting to turn on Naval Ranks? 
Caine Mutiny ship
in Wardroom
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Great movie... kind of makes you want to go raid the fridge for some strawberries...