Hmmm Threads prob the best anti war movie ever made and nice shots of the F4's on QRA
First saw it in Sept 84 while in the later half of trade training and had already done two exercise in full NBC rig by time it was repeated in Aug 85. The Phantom footage if memory serves was of 19 and 92 Sqn aircraft at Wildenrath taken during a Man Alive programme called Phantom which was about the station on exercise and was shown on BBC2 in 1980. There was an RAF CIO film called Intercept that covered the UK Air Defence systems and the branches and trades that manned it. All of the locations were RAF XXXXXXX this or RAF YYYYYYY that and the film started with the crew of a Russian Badger getting into the aircraft (which was actually the cockpit of the Valiant while it was still on the gate at Marhell). Not only covered Southern QRA (Wattashambles), but the CRC's (Boulmer, according to the OiC of my block at Locking as he was the Shift Jengo on the bridge of the R12 in the film), Bloodhound (West Raynham), Victors (Marhell) and Shacks (ISL), plus a Jock Rock Rapier Sqn (48 Sqn at ISL). Some of it is on Youtube
Would love to get a complete copy of it.
If we're going to be that realistic, maybe it should be running on a Commodore
Anyhow. got to get my head down for a long drive to the West Midlands early tomorrow morning to help some guys in our own 1988 era Air Defence battle simulation project. With our project however we are being totally realistic as the equipment is actually what would have been used for real back then, though it also came with a simulator function. (The computer is a Ferranti Argus 700).