Originally Posted by
Flypro
Marcantilan,
Yes please, though your chapter on RAF involvement will be VERY short !!!!!!!
Well, the RAF deployed some Nimrod Squadrons to ASI (firstly, Nimrod MR1 from 42 Sqn and then MR2s from 120, 201 and 206). The submarine threat was considered (according to Air Marshal Sir John Curtiss) as
"small but significant", so the Nimrod patrolled inside the 400 nm from ASI. Sometimes, they deployed down south, but mainly on ASuW duties.
From April 20, the planes departed with 3xMk46 torpedoes and 4x1000lb bombs. Three days later, ten brand new Stingray torpedoes arrived, and five Nimrod were wired to launch it.
Probably the more significant Nimrod ASW action was on April 18, helping to classify as NOSUB a contact first reported from RFA Olmeda and then investigated by HMS Alacrity, HMS Broadsword and three ASW helicopters.
And this is just the start: more on the way about April 1 chase on a Victor III, Stingray torpedoes being trialled and other things related to RAF ASW.
There is a lot of RAF ASW activity to be told!