Sidewinders on the Nimrod

[bvcu]

seem to recall being told at the time that there would have been no 'tone' as it was not 'fully' integrated. saw the film of the firing at the time which proved it was feasible to launch , so believe it was a detterant which probably worked. only hearsay as was looking after the photochase a/c for the trials.

[Yellow Sun]

seem to recall being told at the time that there would have been no 'tone' as it was not 'fully' integrated

There was an audio signal, "tone" is a generic term.

YS

[motleytwo]

raymondo

I can fill in a few answers.
I was on XV229 12 may 1982 southbound to patrol off Argentine coast when we spotted 707 going right to left. Co pilot wanted to chase but advised him that 707 was faster than us.
On 9 Jul we were back in UK doing fighter affiliation with 2 Phantoms one of which decided to do a singleton run. as he approached from behind us the Cap who was the Nimrod Display pilot hung the beast round and got behind the Phantom who had overshot and we definitely all heard the Growl from the seeker head. We then went back to Ascension in XV234 and brought her back from ascension 19 aug complet with nose art as per Airfix kit.
ex 201/1
p.s anyone have a sidewinder pylon spare as we want one for XV250 at Elvington - got a sidewinder but need the mounting

[GQ2]

Ghosts...

It's getting to the stage where there are more RAF a/c in museums than in service.... Maybe it'd have been better to let RSB fail, we'd have still had an airforce and there'd have been a few less wealthy bankers.

[thing]

Just as an aside to this we did a feasability study at Binbrook during the mid 80's to see if we could fit the sidewinder to the Frightning. We couldn't but as I remember if it worked there was going to be a four missile fit, two per side vertically mounted where the RT/Firestreak pylons were. The Firestreak had quite a good PK bearing in mind it was a rear attack only missile, the RT was, shall we say, less effective.

[reynoldsno1]

At dusk we approached a small Mediterranean island in a MR1 (that dates me...), where a Phantom detachment had arrived and asked for some ops against intruders. At 200ft we picked up the first signs of an AI radar, dropped flaps, u/c and down to 50ft on the rad alt and started a slow, gentle weave. The fighters couldn't get a lock on after that, and told us later that they were very uncomfortable at that height over the sea in reducing vis ...