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Old 13th Feb 2007, 18:33
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tornadoken
 
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The numbers don't add up. Wynn requires the reader to hop about to get past the censor. (Do so and find such gems as that Blue Steel was inert at Feb.63 low-level Press display, and may never have been cleared for powered use in QRA P.458). Deployed Force was never 144: from 1/1/60 some (13/7/61, all) Marham/Valiants were NATO TBF. MBF's armed U/E never exceeded 40 BS+64 Yellow Sun 2; to March,62 up to 72 had US Project E weapons, not dispersible. Intent was to generate 75% of U/E: Wynn,P.338 reports a whole-Force Mickey Finn, 26-29/10/64 with 61 free-fall and 30 BS aircraft "available", 35/12 planned for dispersal to 25 sites - "the remainder were activated by personnel only". In the MAD shell-game we hoped to decoy much of the first strike, but could not tell that to the good burghers of Cambeltown. The distant sites were more Q than QRA.
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