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Old 12th Dec 2008, 15:02
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Does anyone know of any 892Sqn F-4K air to air kills?
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I just read yesterday that an 892 Omega off Ark Royal shot a Sidewinder in around 1975 (during the Sailor series but not captured on camera) off Virginia somewhere at an air to air range and knocked one engine off a US (Navy?) C-130!!!
Luckily the Sidewinder did not have a warhead...

Apparently the fault of the Herc's crew who transgressed into the firing range unannounced!
That goes one better than shooting one's own aircraft down (F-4-Jag incident!)

Source: Cdr Michael Doust's 'Phantom Leader' book (he's also the 'Little F' Lt Cdr (Flying) next to Cdr(Air) Bob Northard giving the instruction to 'Turn downwind now' to the F-4s passing by the ship.
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