Originally Posted by
Roadster280
What is a Special Weapon then? I had thought it to be synonymous with buckets of sunshine, but the replies above seem to indicate it could be chemical or even just non-ordinary (i.e. special). Does Special Weapon==nuclear or not?
To answer your last question, yes it does. Yet another euphemism. On the Nimrod the controller was a SWEC - Special Weapons Enabling Controller IIRC.
Hated it.
Friend of mine was Air Commodore Nuclear Weapons at SHAPE. When NW sort of declined in importance, but to keep his job, it metamorphoses in to Air Cdre WMD
