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Old 7th Aug 2014, 22:25
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With respect to DACT, it wasn't just the SF crews that trained, but the Tanker crews that were going Down South.

A single F4 was always easy, get down into the weedosphere and keep turning and you would win every time. Two F4s was more difficult.

Harriers were a pain in the rear end.

Interestingly I was involved with a trial with the GR1, the idea being the GR1's cannons were downwards pointing (for strafe) so the theory went that they would be able to engage us from above when we were at low level in a way that normal AD fighters could not.

Cue an hour in Scotand wazzing about while a couple of clean GR1s tried to engage us (ably supported by a Tanker).

After an hour it was apparent that they couldn't.

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