Back to the original thread.........
The scariest moment of GW1, for me, was one that was actually was quite surreal, looking back.
A night sortie on GR1s, we were on our way to the target and in the pitch black there was this sudden flash of white light streak past our cockpit. Far too close for comfort, it seemed at the time. I, clearly, got the navigator's twitch and started punching out chaff like it was in a sale, whilst my pilot rolled the jet onto its back (Easy to do with 8 x 1000lbs on board!). It was only having lost a good deal of height that we realised that it was a WW shooting a HARM. We heard no call from them and I'm not making any criticism but it scared the 2 of us f@rtless! Odd that it did, as we did other bits of that war that should have been scarier. I think it was because it was so unexpected and appeared to be right outside the cockpit.