Originally Posted by
Vendee
I don't know about the Jag's later days but in the earlier days, the chaff dispenser was a war time fit only. We used to fit them on Taceval/Mineval part one (aircraft generation) but they were usually replaced again with parachutes before they flew.
The Jag chute was quite notorious for detaching as soon as it deployed but I recall once seeing the the entire metal chute canister and noddy cap plop out onto the runway on touchdown, followed by some urgent braking.
In RAFG we had permanent flare dispensers in front of the eng oil panels and a phimat chaff dispenser on the stb outboard and a ECM on the Port outboard which was fitted on exercises and we had a phimat fired off in a HAS full of guys by some asshole pilot as an inject.
When the can and chute fell out complete, you would often still find the pip pin in the tailplane where the liney had forgot to fit it to hold the can in..
Also had one deploy over the range much to the pilots surprise...