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I suppose the point that I was trying to make is that since the Soviets have packed up all their "toys" and gone home, it is hard to imagine that Nimrod has a real ASW task. And that is were the problems start. It's "airframe" now being used for tasks for which it was never designed, in environments it was never disigned to operate in.
I recall the times when we flew real "ops" sorties against Soviet shipping and subs. When SAR meant something - one a/c on fixed standby (aircrew living in the mess), plus a back-up aicraft.
We had high OR rates, high moral and no NISC.
DV