Mallet Blow
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Mallet Blow
Apologies for the intrusion but can anyone tell me if the Mallet Blow excercises
still take place these days.
I have spent many chilly hours up at the simfire unit on Otterburn range shooting pictures in conjunction with what was then RAF Strike Command, High Wycombe.
still take place these days.
I have spent many chilly hours up at the simfire unit on Otterburn range shooting pictures in conjunction with what was then RAF Strike Command, High Wycombe.
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Yeah i've been away for 14 years but we had some laughs and cries at Otterburn.
They used to take place four times a year if memory serves.
Do they have any similar regular excercises on the range these days.
They used to take place four times a year if memory serves.
Do they have any similar regular excercises on the range these days.
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Fourteen years living in the Sun has taken its toll .
Brain must be frazzled to a raisin by now
They never called me to cover Elder Forest. Was it as extensive ?
erewego http://www.globalsecurity.org/milita...enterprise.htm
Brain must be frazzled to a raisin by now
They never called me to cover Elder Forest. Was it as extensive ?
erewego http://www.globalsecurity.org/milita...enterprise.htm
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Sorry to say there isn't a lot of fast jet activity or even helicopters at otterburn now. There is a fair bit of FAC training done but it is a bit staid compared to MB.
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Blimey!
Mallet Blow, Elder Forest and not forgetting Elder Joust
I remember assisting the Controllers who were having lots of fun during those fine Cold War days when we knew the enemy were beyond the wall and not in Whitehall!
The days when the TB would echo those great words...survival scramble, survival scramble and all hell would break loose for the next 90 minutes.
That was the sort of thing that got me into this controlling lark?
Were they not replaced by the NATINADS series?
SA
I remember assisting the Controllers who were having lots of fun during those fine Cold War days when we knew the enemy were beyond the wall and not in Whitehall!
The days when the TB would echo those great words...survival scramble, survival scramble and all hell would break loose for the next 90 minutes.
That was the sort of thing that got me into this controlling lark?
Were they not replaced by the NATINADS series?
SA
Salmon or Salmond?
Mallet Blow became something else - similar profiles different name, can't remember what it was though. Brave Invader? - something like that. Spent time on the ground for MB though, prepping targets and other jolly stuff.
Did Lionheart too - in a tented camp in BAOR.
Mallet Blow became something else - similar profiles different name, can't remember what it was though. Brave Invader? - something like that. Spent time on the ground for MB though, prepping targets and other jolly stuff.
Did Lionheart too - in a tented camp in BAOR.
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Actually it was the SALMOND Trophy. Won it for my sqn in 1986. As sqn QWI I instructed the boys all to drop the FRA bombs TOO Rad Alt instead of phase 1. The navs cursed and hated me for it but the sqn stats showed that method to be the most accurate. The boss said I'd better be right. I was (phew).
Mallet Blows? What larks, Pip!
Anyone remember Ex "Priory"?
Mallet Blows? What larks, Pip!
Anyone remember Ex "Priory"?
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My apologies, it was called the Salmond trophy. It was a long time ago.
However in my defence I seem to remember that the trophy was awarded to a certain Bat Sqn when they first arrived in Germany (RAF PR stunt).
The real winners were the “Star” Sqn who were disqualified for allegedly tampering with JP233. This “tampering” was subsequently accepted as a legitimate modification.
After the exercise the Bat Sqn presented the WO of the “Star Sqn with a tin of pink Salmon which, as you can imagine, did not go down to well ...............true story.
PS 1986 seems to ring a bell....... Wingswinger were you a "bat" or a Laarbruch man.
My apologies, it was called the Salmond trophy. It was a long time ago.
However in my defence I seem to remember that the trophy was awarded to a certain Bat Sqn when they first arrived in Germany (RAF PR stunt).
The real winners were the “Star” Sqn who were disqualified for allegedly tampering with JP233. This “tampering” was subsequently accepted as a legitimate modification.
After the exercise the Bat Sqn presented the WO of the “Star Sqn with a tin of pink Salmon which, as you can imagine, did not go down to well ...............true story.
PS 1986 seems to ring a bell....... Wingswinger were you a "bat" or a Laarbruch man.
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Ocean Safari
Priory
Blue Moon
Datex
Brown Falcon
Cloudy Chorus
Solar Flare
Northern Wedding
Highwood
Macex
Flintstone
Mallet Blow
Whiskey Troll
Roebuck
Bold Gauntlet
Central Enterprise
Western Chance
Elder Forest
Scotadex
Imminent Thunder
Brilliant Foil
Minibus
Hulkex
Salty Hammer
Shetland Bus
Brilliant Invader
Pegasus Strike
NAM2000
Plus all those Profits and Coffee Charlies....
I'm sure there were others!
