Originally Posted by
frodo_monkey
We don’t have 3/14kg practice bombs in the inventory any more (nor their full size KRET and KFF brethren) therefore in the absence of anything like a Laser Training Round it’s all a bit pointless - barring gunnery.
Thanks - I didn't know they had stopped (at least for the front line) that's fascinating.
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I've seen 1000's of them dropped so it is the end of an era. Presume they finished with the Tornado.
I also assume the Spadeadam is not useful any more. I've no idea if it has modern threats these days but the practice of countermeasures would be severely limited.
Hard to see it providing anything a sim can't
When Spade opened in the late 70s ultra low level was a large part of the EW training - how times have changed.