Originally Posted by
Asturias56
IIRC the Vulcan attack on Stanley used 3 INS systems in a single aircraft "loaned" from BA and they were pretty large but at least a generation or two more advanced than the systems I saw in the Nimrod R1.
B Sweepers 20 nm drift from a single system after 8 hours is actually pretty good TBH
I don’t know what you think you saw in the Nimrod R1, but it had the system I described in my previous post. My fault I didn’t make it clear. Carousel was standard fit through the late 60s and 70s for aircraft such as 747. It was fitted in Concorde and also in RAF VC10s and Sentry.
it was a very good system. I believe a single unit was used for FI. Units were also borrowed for the famous pics of Nimrod MR2 meeting up with the boats at the pole.