About the Nimrod AIM-9 aiming. It was a fairly simple matter and it just might have worked. We worked out where the missile boresite was, easy to see where the rocket was pointing on the ground. Pick a distant feature along that line of sight. Captain sat in his throne and put a cross with a red chinagraph over the same distant object. Fortunately, the Golf had a reasonably wide field of view, probably a bit wider than the (of the top of my head) 2 1/4 or 2 1/2 degrees nominal. So against a cold background there was some room for error.
So, don't slouch, put the cross over the target, audio tone says the mx sees the target, launch the wee beastie. Boom. Simples.
Sorry it's not more exciting, but there was no other way of doing it. Well, not that we could see at the time. Quick, dirty, simple, might have worked.
By the way, it wasn't the FMR2. It was the FGMR2P. Lots more additional stuff crammed into those jets. Could even (technically) have done a bit of a Black Buck.
Last edited by Courtney Mil; 23rd Mar 2012 at 22:54.