Target Designation In The Falklands
In the middle of a war you're going to hover at 5000' in clear view of the enemy? You don't need specialist knowledge to predict the likely consequences. If I were a member of your crew and you proposed such a plan I'd have clubbed you like a baby seal.
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Looking the film and maps they were successfully designating targets (artillery)at 10 -12 miles from an elevation of about 1000ft.
Last edited by Bagheera S; 9th Aug 2021 at 12:00.
Ecce Homo! Loquitur...
You’d have to have supreme confidence in the intelligence on enemy ground weapon deployment in an era and area without satellite coverage or photo recce and analysis….
A little known event occurred one weekend when a Nimrod was flown from Kinloss to Lossiemouth where an afternoon was spent trying LGBs for size in the bomb bay. There was no information forthcoming about how they might be used, in fact I somehow doubt that it had developed that far. However it was established that the stores could be carried so I suppose it could have become an “interesting’ option.
I don’t know what the outcome of the measuring up exercise was. We knew beforehand that they would fit, but how many and if a safe release was achievable was not a unit matter. In any event, there were many other things going on that fully occupied my time.
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The GBU-10s & 12s we used back in the day had a 4-digit code that was set on both the weapon and the designator. Did the kits used in the Falklands not have this, or if they did, how was it expected that the Harrier laser would work with them?