With reference to the Sarajevo "sniper" most of the bursts of ground fire weren't at all well aimed. In an accompanying pic from Rhobabwie which features in earlier pages we picked up a 7.62 AK 47 round just between the A/C Number and the White Cross . Notwithstanding the devastating and tragic events in Iraq much later which shade all previous incidents, it was quite uncommon for Albert to get perforated. Ops in Zim were carried out at about 100ft above the trees and at 240kts giving brief pockets of exposure to the terr..freedom fighters. Cresting a ridge on the way to Chipinda Pools there was a thud which was assumed to be a bird strike. A common occurrence since H**** B******* had taken out a whole flock just previously. On landing the hole was discovered which penetrated the radome conditioning system and took out the spike thermostat. We had only dumped the LOX that morning. The despatcher said that he saw at least 10 tracer come up at us below and above the aircraft. The Zanu PF were in the habit of loading one tracer in every three in the mag of the best marksman and everybody else fired where he aimed. So we copped one out of thirty. Very lucky.
In reply to previous posts. Smudj: If I did one comp change on the Herc for another duff one which hadn't been replaced I must have done at least a dozen. and WIDN The Upland Goose was never 5*.
Cheers
Dougie