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Old 5th Apr 2015, 23:05
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Tengah Type, that sort of Int appraisal was almost as incisive as the ridiculous idea which came into Daisy's head at Antalya in that fine summer by the Sheraton....

At the time. we had 2 crews and 2 jets on the Det. One jet (a K2) had utterly woeful air conditioning (only 2 blowers), but did have an RWR. Whereas the other (a K4) had excellent 4-blower air conditioning, but no RWR. Sod's Law being what it was, one lucky crew (mine) always seemed to fly the K4, whereas the other poor buggers sweltered in the old K2.

Then one day, for some engineering reason or other, the other crew were due to fly the K4. Except that it coincided with some PKK anniversary, so DetCo Daisy decided that the threat matrix had moved up a notch and that they should therefore have the benefit of an RWR - so they found themselves in the sweaty old K2 again!

But quite why Daisy thought that an RWR would have been much use to warn of any potential PKK IR ManPad threat was something known only to him....ar$e!
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