CHOCOLATE FIREGUARDS
Nige. Well done for keeping the pressure up on this despicable bunch who claim to care about our armed forces. Anyway to the point.
In January 2006, Mr Ingram was still claiming that the ALQ 157 IRCM was a suite of defensive aids!
In January 2002 Trial BISHOP (it has been mentioned in earlier posts before I'm accused of treachery) was hastily conducted to assess the vulnerabity of both the K and J to the perceived IR threats in the Afghan theatre. By the end of day 1 on what was to become a 3 day trial it was quite obvious that both types were highly susceptible to all the threats. The J had at that time no DAS so it was a fairly obvious conclusion. The 'slick' K had the ALQ 157 and the trial concluded that it was about as much use as a chocolate fireguard! At the end of the trial the results and AWC recommendations were passed up the chain of command at supersonic speed - despite those recommendations subsequent operations were then conducted under the guise of 'military risk' and/or changing the threat matrix on a daily if not mission by mission basis. To have called the ALQ 157 IRCM a defensive aids suite is a complete misnomer since a 'suite' - to me - implies more than one component, ie. a detection/indication system coupled to a jamming/decoy system, whereas in fact it is only a 'dumb' 1st generation IR jammer giving the crew no indication of a missile launch and subsequent 'jam' (assuming it worked!). There are a lot of people involved with this whole debacle who had their part to play and didn't, either for their careers sake or to meet our great leader's demands to be seen to be doing our bit - they all deserve to rot in hell.
Last edited by Facilitator; 2nd Apr 2006 at 14:51.