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Old 8th Apr 2015, 18:46
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All but dropping the weapon

The thread about the Shack Co-Pilot offer got me thinking.


When I was young I was fascinated by the role Maritime Aircraft played in the NATO role. As a cabbage I knew about Oscars, Foxtrots, and Victors etc. and had a pretty good idea of how a NATO v Pact war at sea was meant to play out


I have the Tony Blackman book ‘Nimrod Rise and Fall’ and re-reading the prologue ‘The Hunt’ about how the crew of XV262 spent 10 hours in the air chasing a contact that SOSUS had not detected I could not help but think that the crew had done everything but dropped a weapon on the contact.


Would it be fair to say that the crews of 18 Group (as it was back in the Cold War days), especially the MPA aircraft, effectively operated in a state of a silent war?


By the way the book is a very good read.
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