Re: Anyone remember Lightning DataLink?
I am pleased to say that the Lightning had just left service when I qualified as an IC (though I still had to learn the 90/120/150/180 TCA PIs). I seem to recall being taught that the Grumman F14 had a similar system called Link 4, that the USN had managed to bring into service - but I may just be imagining it. However, I don't know whether it ever came into serious use.
The other thing I always wondered was what the point was. OK, I accept that in conditions of extreme EW, the GCI info might not have been able to get through, but I am not sure the 'Link' would have been more successful, and jamming it whilst active would presumably have been catastrophic.
STH