Heads Up Vulcans Victors and Cuba
Thread Starter
Join Date: Oct 1999
Location: Swindon, Wilts,UK
Posts: 567
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Heads Up Vulcans Victors and Cuba
Discovery Knowledge UK 21:00BST
Don't ask I haven't seen it yet either!
Reveals how UK bombers stood by to take part in the bombing of the Soviet Union at the height of the Cold War and the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: West mids
Posts: 8
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Valiant first and last
Maybe the Victor would have got there first, BUT never with the Mostest! The Valiant was armed with two weapons per aircraft not ONE as was the Victor!
Victor first yes; best Never!
I well recall that period, as I had never before seen all of Marham's Valiants nuclear armed before! This was all three Bomber Squadrons in the region of 24 aircraft! The weapons used were all thermo nuclear devices of variable yield, a capability which was never available with either Yellow Sun or Blue Steel weapons!
Yellow Sun yield circa 1 Mt One off carried
Blue Steel yield circa 1 Mt One off carried
Mk 28 yield variable Fm 70 Kt to 1.4Mt TWO off carried
Victor first yes; best Never!
I well recall that period, as I had never before seen all of Marham's Valiants nuclear armed before! This was all three Bomber Squadrons in the region of 24 aircraft! The weapons used were all thermo nuclear devices of variable yield, a capability which was never available with either Yellow Sun or Blue Steel weapons!
Yellow Sun yield circa 1 Mt One off carried
Blue Steel yield circa 1 Mt One off carried
Mk 28 yield variable Fm 70 Kt to 1.4Mt TWO off carried
Interesting, 818, certainly didnt know that about carrying two! I think the Victor had the biggest conventional bomb load, but thats not quite relevant in this case.
Cant imagine what the procedures for delivering two weapons would be - two fairly adjacent targets?
Cant imagine what the procedures for delivering two weapons would be - two fairly adjacent targets?
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: On the Bay, Vic, Oz
Age: 80
Posts: 415
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
TTN wrote:
A bit like suicide bombers. One was to get their attention, the second for those who came to look. 
Cant imagine what the procedures for delivering two weapons would be - two fairly adjacent targets?
Last edited by alisoncc; 14th Aug 2010 at 00:16. Reason: Correct grammar
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: West mids
Posts: 8
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Cuba Again
You guys may think that this was all a lot of baloney and over reaction, but I can reassure you all, that at the time it was NO JOKE. None of us ever thought that Kruschev of all people, would ever have backed down, but he had the balls to, thank God! Kennedy was over reacting to something that the US had been building for many years and that was the complete encirclement of the USSR [as was]. We in Europe and the Russians too would have had very little warning of anything incoming. When the Russians did the same to the Americans [Cuban missile sites] then things took on a different light and they [the Americans] didn't like it one little bit. Most of us thought that we would actually GO at that time and just sat around waiting for the OFF!
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: On the Bay, Vic, Oz
Age: 80
Posts: 415
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
You guys may think that this was all a lot of baloney and over reaction, but I can reassure you all, that at the time it was NO JOKE
De-icing our B2's at 3.00 in the morning in January at a Yorkshire airfield was not a lot of fun.
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: South Africa
Age: 87
Posts: 1,329
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
XD818,
Slightly off thread, I was on 214 Sqdn at Marham from Jan 59 but would you believe that after all of the Micky Finn's and such, I was posted from 214 Sqdn to Akrotiri arriving on the 14th Oct '62 so I just missed all of the fun.
Slightly off thread, I was on 214 Sqdn at Marham from Jan 59 but would you believe that after all of the Micky Finn's and such, I was posted from 214 Sqdn to Akrotiri arriving on the 14th Oct '62 so I just missed all of the fun.
