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Old 9th Nov 2023, 12:42
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Martin the Martian
 
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RAFAT Hawks were among those given AIM-9L wiring and redesignated T.1As, along with the TWU fleets. The pilots and aircraft would have been split among the TWU shadow squadrons and the red paint quickly covered with grey. Quite how the T.1A would have performed is anyone's guess but another subsonic jet equipped with AIM-9Ls acquitted itself quite well in the early 1980s as I recall.
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