Originally Posted by
gums
Salute!
How many kills with the gun pod in the Falklands?
How many with the Lima? and it did not have the slave function we had at the time with our "dogfight" mode in the Viper.
Any kills with the other missile?
Gums asks....
As far as the old grey matter recalls, there were 2 Skyhawks and an A109 splashed with guns. No AIM9Bs were ever flown in combat, although it got close in the first few days before a box of Limas fell from the back of a Herc and were retrieved by sea boat! The address label on the box was “USAFE Bitburg” crossed out and “HMS Hermes” added.
18 kills with the Lima, including a Herc that copped a L and then 30mm. We could slave the head to the radar and have it scan around that point. Also had a “Superscan” mode which did a rapid rectangular scan to quite a long way above LFD and +/- a couple of degrees laterally. Unfortunately it had been developed in a few days and sent down in someone’s Burberry pocket and when we trialled it, we discovered that it was ground stabilised - ie in a hard left turn, it scanned out of your right ear!
Ho hum,
Mog
VMT Uncle Sam.
Mog