All but dropping the weapon
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Russian Submarine in Irish Sea?
Trawler from Ardglas, NI, snagged by submarine.:
Trawler skipper tells of 'submarine dragging incident' in Irish Sea | UK news | The Guardian
No MPA - No deterrent?
Trawler skipper tells of 'submarine dragging incident' in Irish Sea | UK news | The Guardian
No MPA - No deterrent?
mmm, a russian submarine... or another blue-on-blue?
Back in the days, they blamed the soviets also, but own boats are mostly responsible.
The day an Irish fishing boat was sunk by a British submarine (Specially this one - mostly because HMS Porpoise was hidden after the incident, but one worker spoke to the press about the damage, and no longer the soviets were the culprits)
Revealed: MoD admits to 16 nuclear submarine crashes | Herald Scotland
So on and so on.
Back in the days, they blamed the soviets also, but own boats are mostly responsible.
The day an Irish fishing boat was sunk by a British submarine (Specially this one - mostly because HMS Porpoise was hidden after the incident, but one worker spoke to the press about the damage, and no longer the soviets were the culprits)
Revealed: MoD admits to 16 nuclear submarine crashes | Herald Scotland
So on and so on.
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If it was a bomber sneaking south through St George's Channel then it clearly wasn't one of ours, if you see what I mean.
Then if it was out of Barrow then it wasn't one of ours either.
Then if it was one of ours it clearly wasn't as we don't do that sort of thing and own up immediately.
Then if it was out of Barrow then it wasn't one of ours either.
Then if it was one of ours it clearly wasn't as we don't do that sort of thing and own up immediately.
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I smell BS,
Did the fisherman say how big it was before it got away ?
JW always atracts dubious claims followed by compensation request.
Lets see how long it is before the tree huggers start blaiming the Navy for a dead haddock washed up on a beach!
Theres no sex like a Casex!
Did the fisherman say how big it was before it got away ?
JW always atracts dubious claims followed by compensation request.
Lets see how long it is before the tree huggers start blaiming the Navy for a dead haddock washed up on a beach!
Theres no sex like a Casex!
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Now what do I do ?!
Everyone knows that the one the girls really go for is/was the Nimrod AEO
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TOFO, I assure you that it was 100% true.
Whether the tale is established in an actual incident or not, is irrelevant. It is bollocks because it purports to represent a problem that never, ever existed (and not in a banterish way either).
As fergineer so adroitly points out, we all knew what out job was and we got on with it as the ace team we were - "labels" were irrelevant. Of course we had knobs, but they did not get awarded captaincy...or for that matter, lead operator slots or first nav slots.
Regrettably, quite a few AEOs were of the knobbish variety, mainly in the early days, but that was entirely because OASC had an iron fist over AEO selection. If the fleet had had a veto, that would never have happened either.
Apologies for the thread drift.
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Tourist...thinking back quite a while now, we had our fair share of legendary ladies men and they were pretty much all rear crew. More time on their hands to hone their skills I guess.
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Sounds like it was more fun when it was all blue seas and air shows rather than sandy deserts! Even on R&R the 'behaviour expectations' blunties were always close enough. Something else that I'm sure will rattle BEagle is that there's often more graduates down the back than sitting at the front since he retired. And yes some of that education could make a difference in the outcome of the more technical parts of the mission.
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Regrettably, quite a few AEOs were of the knobbish variety, mainly in the early days, but that was entirely because OASC had an iron fist over AEO selection. If the fleet had had a veto, that would never have happened either.
You're not whistling Dixie there Tofo.
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Regrettably, quite a few AEOs were of the knobbish variety, mainly in the early days, but that was entirely because OASC had an iron fist over AEO selection. If the fleet had had a veto, that would never have happened either.
You're not whistling Dixie there Tofo.
Mo
I recall at least one AEOp turning up at the Towers in the earlyish 80s and DDIOT being told that the student would pass, come what may, as his skills were required to fill a commissioned post. ISTR he actually did rather well on IOT, but the "system" seemed to have the whip hand in at least that case, not IOT.
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OP Reply - Small Apology
As the OP I’d like to say thanks all for the replies even if some did some of them did stretch credibility a bit.
I mean, female choosing FJ Pilot over Nimrod Crew.
As if.
Imagine the scene. Nimrod crew member and FJ Pilot vying for attention of very attractive lady.
She already knows what the FJ Pilot does because he told everyone within the first 30 seconds of meeting them and then spent the next 60 seconds explaining that he doesn’t have a rare facial birthmark it is the marks of his Oxygen mask, which he has to use because “I like to fly really high, don’t I”
She asks the Nimrod chap “What do you do in the RAF then”.
Nimrod God takes a small sip of his ice cold Chardonnay, looks into her eyes and says “I’m afraid what I do is so secret that even the Prime Minister does not know what it is. But because of our incredible endurance we stay up for absolute ages, making sure every position we find our self in is perfect, and that after the mission climax we can get back on task with a very short turnaround time”
Quick flash of the pearly whites and a suggestive wink and that’s it.
Job Jobbed.
But on a somewhat more serious note.
I am finding it slightly hard to articulate exactly what I mean but it is along these lines.
I’m thinking mainly of the Cold War years so no offense meant to any aircrew post 1990 or thereabouts
Air Defenders and the Strike/Recce groups obviously practiced their missions and at Spade had the privilege of seeing them in simulated action. As a young ScopeDope fresh out of training at Drayton having learnt about CRC/CRP’s, Type 84/85, Nodding Height Finders, UKADR etc.
I suddenly found myself having to learn what a ‘4 Ship FRA on Prior Lancey’ meant along with a whole crap load of new TLAs and Exercise names.
A10’s on CAS, Jags doing BAI, F4G Weasels doing SEAD and GR1s on OCA. Not to mention that F-111’s wanted to bomb various villages in Cumbria for some reason.
The Air Defenders were there as well. RAF F4s, USAF F15s and F16 on things like Mallet Blow.
And all of them lost aircrew at some point practising for what they all hoped would never come, but if it did come they would be the very best at the job they had to do.
But I think the point I was trying to make with ‘All but dropping the weapon’ was that the MPA fleet were practising against, for the most part, the actual Soviet Subs and Surface craft they would engage in War. And over the actual ‘ground’ they would be doing it over. The plans they made and missions they flew would require very little changes to go from ‘Track Target’ to ‘Engage Target’.
I know that is a simplification but I hope it makes sense and please correct me if I am wrong.
So when I said ‘A Silent War’ I meant it as no disrespect to any of the other Aircrew that flew the vast disparate types that hurled themselves all over Europe during that period.
Thinking about it I should give a nod to the Royal Navy Hunter-Killers and ASW types bit this an aviation forum after all and ANY RAF Aircrew trade would pull the lady before the Navy got a look in.
By the way I believe a poster thought I should have said ‘All but dropping a weapon’ instead of ‘the Weapon’. I think they felt I was implying a nuke but I wasn’t. The weapon could have been a Torpedo, depth charge etc.
Did MPA carry depth charges?
Have a good weekend all.
I mean, female choosing FJ Pilot over Nimrod Crew.
As if.
Imagine the scene. Nimrod crew member and FJ Pilot vying for attention of very attractive lady.
She already knows what the FJ Pilot does because he told everyone within the first 30 seconds of meeting them and then spent the next 60 seconds explaining that he doesn’t have a rare facial birthmark it is the marks of his Oxygen mask, which he has to use because “I like to fly really high, don’t I”
She asks the Nimrod chap “What do you do in the RAF then”.
Nimrod God takes a small sip of his ice cold Chardonnay, looks into her eyes and says “I’m afraid what I do is so secret that even the Prime Minister does not know what it is. But because of our incredible endurance we stay up for absolute ages, making sure every position we find our self in is perfect, and that after the mission climax we can get back on task with a very short turnaround time”
Quick flash of the pearly whites and a suggestive wink and that’s it.
Job Jobbed.
But on a somewhat more serious note.
I am finding it slightly hard to articulate exactly what I mean but it is along these lines.
I’m thinking mainly of the Cold War years so no offense meant to any aircrew post 1990 or thereabouts
Air Defenders and the Strike/Recce groups obviously practiced their missions and at Spade had the privilege of seeing them in simulated action. As a young ScopeDope fresh out of training at Drayton having learnt about CRC/CRP’s, Type 84/85, Nodding Height Finders, UKADR etc.
I suddenly found myself having to learn what a ‘4 Ship FRA on Prior Lancey’ meant along with a whole crap load of new TLAs and Exercise names.
A10’s on CAS, Jags doing BAI, F4G Weasels doing SEAD and GR1s on OCA. Not to mention that F-111’s wanted to bomb various villages in Cumbria for some reason.
The Air Defenders were there as well. RAF F4s, USAF F15s and F16 on things like Mallet Blow.
And all of them lost aircrew at some point practising for what they all hoped would never come, but if it did come they would be the very best at the job they had to do.
But I think the point I was trying to make with ‘All but dropping the weapon’ was that the MPA fleet were practising against, for the most part, the actual Soviet Subs and Surface craft they would engage in War. And over the actual ‘ground’ they would be doing it over. The plans they made and missions they flew would require very little changes to go from ‘Track Target’ to ‘Engage Target’.
I know that is a simplification but I hope it makes sense and please correct me if I am wrong.
So when I said ‘A Silent War’ I meant it as no disrespect to any of the other Aircrew that flew the vast disparate types that hurled themselves all over Europe during that period.
Thinking about it I should give a nod to the Royal Navy Hunter-Killers and ASW types bit this an aviation forum after all and ANY RAF Aircrew trade would pull the lady before the Navy got a look in.
By the way I believe a poster thought I should have said ‘All but dropping a weapon’ instead of ‘the Weapon’. I think they felt I was implying a nuke but I wasn’t. The weapon could have been a Torpedo, depth charge etc.
Did MPA carry depth charges?
Have a good weekend all.
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Beautifully done. You had me going with that post.
Hook line and sinker.
I would never have realised it was a waaa if it wasn't for the "ANY RAF Aircrew trade would pull the lady before the Navy got a look in." line.
Just too outrageous for even a crab to believe.
Beautifully done. You had me going with that post.
Hook line and sinker.
I would never have realised it was a waaa if it wasn't for the "ANY RAF Aircrew trade would pull the lady before the Navy got a look in." line.
Just too outrageous for even a crab to believe.
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ERR, good post, the only depth charge on the Nimrod was about 10kt
Quite right, the Nimrod got to play with many of the live radars although many, for obvious reason were not heard much. For those radars we used the SIM with, hopefully, the proper modes and tactics. Playing with the real hardware was easier and sometimes we got some cracking results even a sonobuoy inside a submarine.
Quite right, the Nimrod got to play with many of the live radars although many, for obvious reason were not heard much. For those radars we used the SIM with, hopefully, the proper modes and tactics. Playing with the real hardware was easier and sometimes we got some cracking results even a sonobuoy inside a submarine.
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Everyone knows that the one the girls really go for is/was the Nimrod AEO. To a man they are handsome, possess a sparkling wit, were intelligent and like the aircraft, they have a long satisfying endurance (and are much bigger where it matters) - all the qualities the ladies seek. AEO's like the aircraft they used to fly (and often captained), had a long endurance, whereas with the fast jet boys it was all over quickly (unless they had a refuel (Viagra?)).
"It's not all about the size of the boat, it's about the motion in the ocean."
That's the difference between FJ and ME!
Did one of the early Nimrod courses (1970 ), and depth charges were still on the list of cleared weapons. Saw some loaded on an aircraft we were due to fly, planning to drop them for training. (We had dropped some for training on the Shack course , 1964 ) They were rusty as hell, you could just make out the date of manufacture, 1944, and they were weeping some nasty looking liquid. We said we were not happy with them, they were off loaded, and shortly afterwards they disappeared from the menu.
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The bucket of sunshine that was usable could be deployed by S-3's but I don't recall whether or not our P-3's had it in their cert: probably did. Memory foggy regarding the halcyon days of playing tag with Ivan.
There was at least one rotary wing that could carry same bucket of sunshine, but there was some question about whether it was fast enough to get out of the blast radius once it delivered.
This whole lash up reminded me of that tactical nuke Mortar the Army developed back in the 50's.
There was at least one rotary wing that could carry same bucket of sunshine, but there was some question about whether it was fast enough to get out of the blast radius once it delivered.
This whole lash up reminded me of that tactical nuke Mortar the Army developed back in the 50's.
This whole lash up reminded me of that tactical nuke Mortar the Army developed back in the 50's.
http://www.nuclear-weapons.info/vw.htm
As we mere mortals hardly control wind direction and velocity, the DC remains a "sorta good idea but not really" from where I sit. I do realize that it was a product of its times.
