DIVE BOMBING AT NIGHT At the time of the Confrontation it was thought that Komar class ships of the Indons could sneak out from the islands sixty or so miles south of Singapore and wreak havoc in the harbour. To counter these fast ships some bright spark thought that by dropping flares "behind" them to silhouette the target Hunters of 20 Sqn could make dive attacks using 60lb rockets. They tried it with their two seat T7 and frightened themselves. Release height is 800ft in a 60 degree dive with a six g recovery. From the bowels of FEAF an ancient aviator surfaced to say that he had done it in Beaufighters. It was called "Lightstrike" and a significant number of his oppos were lost through flying into the sea. And in any case there were only some dozen flares available in the theatre so the idea was a dead duck.