Originally Posted by
RAFEngO74to09
Cosmiccomet
The Nimrod was fitted with LAU7/A launchers taken from spare Phantom stocks which were then specially modified over a weekend. A Nimrod was then flown to our Phantom base with pylons already fitted. The LAU7/A launchers were then fitted to the pylons and electrical checks carried out successfully. I stand to be corrected by any Nimrod aircrew who subsequently deployed with the system, but I doubt that we would have been tasked to do a specific modification if they were just for show.
IIRC - Nimrod chaps will know for sure, of course - wasn't the idea that the Nimrod FMR.2 (
) could be used to deal with the 707 and Learjet sorties flown by the Argentine AF?