BEagle
Chuckles was on Gannets and Shacks, but not Neptunes.
The E190 was actually quite good for A to A work. You could see an F4 at 15nm, and a Bear at 35nm.
At one point we also had Verey cartridges with chaff. How useful they would have been with a VC10 or Victor target is unknown. To that end we stuffed bundles of chaff in the baskets of the Victor wing pods in 82.
With only large aircraft to refuel ( unless tanking Harrier/SHAR ) we would not be using them. The plan was to trail the hose to deploy the chaff, but with no ECM of worth, how would you know when to do it?