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Old 10th May 2008, 04:18
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trap one
 
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Affill

The F4/GR3 affill in the UK was done with Belgian Mir5 and French Navy Super Etendards. No A4's were involved with UK Land based aircraft. The sorties were flown over East Anglia as neither nations had immersion suits with them. I was involved with the sorties and threatened with all sorts of Official Secrets punishments. But as the Sec Def stood up in the House and thanked the nations involved at the end of the conflict, it became unclass.

As for KC135 BDA basket with big aircraft, never done AFAIK. The KC135's certainly replaced the Victor on UK AAR QRA and flew out of Mildenhall.
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