Just to be pedantic and a real pain in the @rse, the SHAR wasnt going to get JTIDS. Just like the Mk7 SK didnt get JTIDS. It got MIDS, first off the Spam production line as I recall, and the ASaC fleet got the same type of terminals that were going to go into the FA2. So it really is MIDS L16 not JTIDS L16, but because we have had the Class 2 (JTIDS) terminal around the UK bazaars for so long now everyone just refers to it as JTIDS. Really annoys me sometimes, because when sprouted by some so called expert it really calls their credibility into question.
JTIDS or MIDS is just a hardware term. L16 is the software term.
Anyway, back to the thread...
There I was in my old Mk2 SKW, 8K' on exercise in the mid Atlantic, found and identified the A69 then schwacked it by with a Sea Eagle strike from a division of FA2. Or the time a notorious sidekick of Jack L disembarked the ship at the end of cruise with his whole cockpit full of blown up balloons!