Originally Posted by
BEagle
Mog, did you have SEAM in your jets?
Hi Beags,
2 basic modes; slaved to the radar and boresight. In both modes, you could "wrist out" to provide a circular search of varying diameter. (Can't remember how many mils)
Falk Loft 82 software (flown down to Ascension in a Burberry pocket!) added a Superscan mode where the missile performed an oblong search pattern left, right, above and below LFD (once again, details lost in the mists of time.).
The idea was that you could acquire a target which was too far above LFD to get the boresight on. It worked a treat in Harry doggers except for the fact that in the two-week development timescale * (!!) they didn't realise that it was ground stabilised; so in a hard right turn, it scanned out of your left ear! The Loft bit worked very well though.
* Kids today, they wouldn't believe it!
Mog