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Originally Posted by nacluv
I'm puzzled though. How come you don't (unlike a lot of other photographers/publishers) have an arrangement with the Vulcan operators whereby the ECM plate is moved over to the port engines periodically - presumably to add a little variety to the photos?
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Are you serious?
There are no fitments on the port side. The plates now are purely ascetic. To move the plates the port side would be unrepresentative of any Vulcan. To move the plate would be unnecessary engineering work - if it ain't broke . . .
When Forget said that Blue Steel aircraft had 2 plates this was not to imply extra capability over non-Blue Steel or that the port side was an option. The second set of aerials was simply to correct the radiated jamming polar diagram which was distorted when the Blue Steel tail fin was in the flight position.
Of course once the whole force went low level the jammers would not be switched on until
after missile release or the final climb point if the missile was unpowered.
PS
OK Beeyate, if he doesn't respond idc I will accept that it was fish bait and delete it
