Originally Posted by
West Coast
Out of curiosity, who banned the U.K. from looking at it?
The US Army were keen to fly a Mohawk into an RAF airfield in West Germany (Gutersloh probably).
It got to the planning stage in the early 80's with HQ 1 BR Corps, 50 missile Regt RA and HQ RAFG with 4 Sqn RAF (Harriers) all keen to take part.
A senior RAF Officer on the RAF 'Air Force Board' a former Canberra gentleman stopped it.
However, I need my pension to survive on and will not go further into it.
It doesn't matter anyway, by then the whole thing was so confused with the budget for it being diverted every which-way at each planning year.
In the end neither service was prepared to fund it from their dwindling budget.
The Army got Phoenix (chortle) and the RAF got new sensors for the Canberra.
As Haraka correctly said of the 'Corps Area Stand - Off Radar'.
CASTOR = "Can Anybody State The Operational Requirement?"
The Harrier Force Recce squadron shouldered the burden of confirming the targets for the Lance regiment and we did what we always do ...
just got on with it using what we had and not what we might have liked or thought we needed.
Sentinel came along - way too late and struggled to find an Operational Requirement.
Work was found for it to do but that's not the same thing.