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gently caress yes. My dad was a weapons controller in the Air Force, so I grew up on stories of all this poo poo. The Bomarc, the B-52, the F-106, which is his favorite plane, and so on. He was around when they ditched SAGE and saved a bunch of junk off a console; he's got an ash tray (you could smoke in the dark room!) and some other little bits. Funny story about the Bomarc -being the unmanned fighter it was, it could be directed to do things other than simply "Go kill this". If you fed it instructions for a heading change or some such, it had to respond, and the easiest way to do this was for it to carry a recorded voice of some sort (I don't think it was a synthetic voice but rather a recording) and just use the radio link. Apparently when they actually used them in testing or exercises, the controllers quite often caught themselves responding to the Bomarc's confirmations!  "Bomarc 7 confirm course change heading 142" "Roger Bomarc 7, ...What the gently caress am I doing?"Can't wait for more. I have more funny second-hand stories, but will withhold until the thing they're about is mentioned.
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