could you recall how often those QRA sorties were lunched between late 82 and the opening of MPA?
V. late Dec 82 - March 83,
- I really can't give you a hard number of launches but things still seemed a bit twitchy, even tense at times and if there was a hint from any of our assets on or around the islands of a possible "problem" QRA would be launched, so it wasn't that infrequent an event.
What then usually happened was you headed west and sat on CAP "just in case" whilst the situation was resolved. I don't recall anybody coming into contact with any Argentinian aircraft when I was down there.
I
think there was at least one successful intercept of a (?(the) Electra after I left so your mid 83 date might be right.