Anyway the Blue Thunder whisper machine slipped silently over the boundary in pitch dark. Intruders dropped off it roared skywards and then went hopping around the airfield with further spoof drop offs. The SRF was run ragged.
hahaha ... nice tactic!
XW [again] ... and 7SOS did a silent insertion with a C-130. As SATCO, I had to be told for safety reasons, but it was the middle of the night anyway so no problem. Not that I ever saw/heard anything, of course, until ...
Well, let's put it this way. The various naughty people fanned out from the middle of the runway and caused appropriate chaos and mayhem all over the Station. It would appear one of their targets was ATC, as some headed our way, but as they set off a load of our trip flares* it seems they decided to leave us alone.
* For those unfamiliar, XW Local was in a separate 2-story control tower in the middle of the airfield. Very lonely and vulnerable, so I decided it shouldn't be
