If you think that's bad you should have seen a T85 in high power!
Ohh, I did. I was the MC for the very, very, last time it was used.
The Spams had ther EC24 across to do some trials, and since it was the last day of the T85 I managed to persuade 11Gp to let use every thing it had. We managed to get 10 out of the 12 Tx on line through 6 horns, full frequency hopping, the lot. The EC24 sat on a N-S track 60 miles off the coast and asked for the jamming grade - zero - zero - zero - zero.
We then asked him if he had anything to report. There was a short pause, then he replied, "Well, we think the paint is coming off the outside of the aircraft"..
Five minutes after he was off task the radar was switched off. ten minutes later the engineers were smashing valves and glass work with axes and cutting through cables. WeŽd got it turned back on so often they had explicit instructions that, this time, it was to be irrecoverable....
