29 Sqn "Phantom" & 392nd ODRAP "Bear" over South Atlantic 1982
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The View from the F4!
OK , here we go with some of the pictures taken using the standard 35 mm Pentax camera issued on QRA.
Have a close look at the rear fuselage closeup - looks like they had a rather bigger camera to use!
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Have a close look at the rear fuselage closeup - looks like they had a rather bigger camera to use!
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Nice Pics Skid!
There were some Aim9L missiles around, I think the Navy had most of them. When we deployed to Port Stanley, we acquired some Aim9L and the aircraft had a mix of G and Ls loaded.
There were some Aim9L missiles around, I think the Navy had most of them. When we deployed to Port Stanley, we acquired some Aim9L and the aircraft had a mix of G and Ls loaded.
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Ta McC!
Downsizer - the 9Ls were just coming into service & as many as possible were sent further South for use on the Shars.
Whilst the US weren't openly assisting the UK effort I believe the supply chain for more AIM 9Ls ( & a lot of other stuff) was hurried along!
Skid
Downsizer - the 9Ls were just coming into service & as many as possible were sent further South for use on the Shars.
Whilst the US weren't openly assisting the UK effort I believe the supply chain for more AIM 9Ls ( & a lot of other stuff) was hurried along!
Skid
the 9Ls were just coming into service & as many as possible were sent further South for use on the Shars.
Evening gents,
As I recall it I think we went from 9Ls back to 9Gs on the Wattisham wing in the space of 24 hours a few days before the Task Force sailed.....
( even after all this time you guys have the better war stories....
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Wow, Thanks Skid for the images and info! Now, we have really the two sides of the coin.
You are also the ones that buzzed the Soviet trawler also?
I will try to contact any of the "other party" crewmembers to show here.
Regards!
You are also the ones that buzzed the Soviet trawler also?
I will try to contact any of the "other party" crewmembers to show here.
Regards!
Skid/McC
Not wanting to high-jack your splendid thread and also not upset the "your not entitled, you're not in now" brigade I've put some other F-4/Phandet piccies in the History section..............
Not wanting to high-jack your splendid thread and also not upset the "your not entitled, you're not in now" brigade I've put some other F-4/Phandet piccies in the History section..............
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McC et al,
When we first went to Stanley, the standard fit was a single 9L and 3Gs mainly because we hadn't got many and we wanted to have at least one heat missile capable of head/beam attacks. The tricky bit was remembering where it was and cycling through to get at it.
By the way, except for your ability to dress up in strange green clothing with a funny thing on your head, you haven't changed a bit in 30 years.
Hope to see all on 11/11/11.
CP
When we first went to Stanley, the standard fit was a single 9L and 3Gs mainly because we hadn't got many and we wanted to have at least one heat missile capable of head/beam attacks. The tricky bit was remembering where it was and cycling through to get at it.
By the way, except for your ability to dress up in strange green clothing with a funny thing on your head, you haven't changed a bit in 30 years.
Hope to see all on 11/11/11.
CP
There were comfier places from which to snap Boris:
Taken with my Olympus PEN-FT half-frame with a 150mm lens long before we were given QRA Canons to use on the VC10K!
Chap in the back was quite friendly on that occasion.
Taken with my Olympus PEN-FT half-frame with a 150mm lens long before we were given QRA Canons to use on the VC10K!
Chap in the back was quite friendly on that occasion.
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A friend of mine find some other pics of the July 11th 1982 encounter, taken from RFA Tidespring:
To XV484 crew, members of this forum!
Best regards,
To XV484 crew, members of this forum!
Best regards,
Ecce Homo! Loquitur...
Ref post 18 and satellite commas interception.
lEO satellites designed for real time war operations. Data relayed using ground sites, relay satellites and data links. Eminently interceptable, and wouldn't be highly encrypted due to data latency issues for targeting.
SOVIET SATELLITES REPORTED OVER AREA - NYTimes.com
RORSAT and EORSAT - Staring at the Sea
http://faculty.fordham.edu/siddiqi/w...orsat_1999.pdf
lEO satellites designed for real time war operations. Data relayed using ground sites, relay satellites and data links. Eminently interceptable, and wouldn't be highly encrypted due to data latency issues for targeting.
SOVIET SATELLITES REPORTED OVER AREA - NYTimes.com
RORSAT and EORSAT - Staring at the Sea
http://faculty.fordham.edu/siddiqi/w...orsat_1999.pdf