Originally Posted by
Herod
Just a question. Would the aircraft have been in radio contact with the ship? One would assume something like NATO Common VHF?
NATO and aviation VHF use AM on different frequencies from marine band FM VHF.
it was a number of years before the Nimrod Mk 1 was fitted with a marine band radio principally so we could talk to lifeboats.
I would imagine that today French or US would have marine band particularly for anti-drug patrols