Originally Posted by
EESDL
Proven in Combat
It functioned perfectly - decoying the SAM 7 approximately 100 yards to the rear - I seemed to recall.
We moved to a more ‘line abreast’ formation after that !!
(and when Insay ‘we’ I mean SHFNI in general)
It also proved effective against a SAM14 - which we weren't told were in the province until the search team I took in post missile attack on a pair of Wessex in 1991 found the irrefutable evidence in a hedge.