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Old 3rd April 2013 | 22:07
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Easy Street
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From the linked article:

The last time 6 Squadron as a whole conducted end-to-end, air to surface weapons training would have been when the Squadron was flying Jaguars, so this is a fitting return to bombing for the "Flying Can-Openers".
ISTR that some of the last Paveway deliveries by 6 Sqn Jags were live PW3s on Ex RED FLAG in which the fuses had been left at the bomb dump's default setting (which assumed retarded rather than freefall delivery) and hence the - now dud - PW3 buried themselves a looooooonnnnng way into the Nevada desert!

Good to see that the latest incarnation of the Flying Can-openers at least started by dropping intentional inerts! Although I hardly think that the successful release of an obsolescent LGB (having no data exchange requirement with the host aircraft) should be a cause for fanfare on a 4.5th-gen £bn project...

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