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Old 3rd May 2017, 12:59
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chevvron
 
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I visited Holbeach for a couple of hours in '87 (we were at ATC Camp at Wittering)
First came 5 Jaguars for 'first run attacks' on a bombing target on the mudflats. These were followed by a pair of Harriers firing unguided rockets at a different target and while they were doing this, they were joined by a pair of A10s which were using their cannon against a target set further back from Boston; it had to be further back or the calculated 'safety trace' for the GAU 8 cannon would have overlapped the city of Boston. Somewhere in there, a couple of F111s attacked a ship using a laser guided bomb (they missed!)
And that was in the space of 2 hours.

PS stupid software changing the 'a' in 'laser' to an '@'; not my mistake.
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