We were having one of those random crewroom conversations the other day (as you do) and the idea of using an airfield Navaid to find and attack an airfield came up. The idea of using an ILS (or even better a GCA!) to then unleash your weapons seemed quite amusing.
So my question is, has there ever been a known occasion when an aircraft has used such a tactic to find and attack a target. Or have the 'enemy' always been smart enough to turn off such devices?
BV
About the time of Kosovo one of the thrusting young squadron commanders (who had done a tour in the AAC) experimented with a plan to attack an airfield by flying a three-ship helicopter formation at high speed down the ILS. They practised it a couple of times with an Agusta flying the ILS and Gazelles then Lynxes formating either side, tight enough so that they were in the radar blob of the Agusta. I think the plan was to use the technique if the airfield was too clagged up to jump in.