Early Warning.
On the street in Riyadh, about now 30 years back,. phoning home. As the payphone swallowed the row of coins along its top rack Mrs M said "" there is a scud inbound to you". "Must be a mistake love, it's all quiet". "I can see it on CNN as we speak" she said. Sudden winding up of air raid sirens. "I'll call you back" I said.

Must have been about the same time I had a similar experience. Air Raid Red came over the alerting net, so I took up residence in our shelter (the stair well of our villa). No public air raid warning yet. Phone rings and it's wife who was staying with #2 son in Sweden "how's the raid going?" Just then I hear the Patriots launch from the battery on the Air Academy site. Relay this information to wife who says "yes, no intercept, the Scud landed down near the Old Souk". The wonders of CNN in real time!

This little beauty from Sky News, from Dhahran, with 31(C) and 43(C) kites, Air and Ground Crews and ZD843 full of holes. Dhahran Det Commander Cliff Spink as well.

Ah yes. Those F3s that never went sausage side.:rolleyes:

In case it's faded into memory, there was a Second Supplement to The London Gazette, dated 28th June 1991 (Number 52589) which gives a great overview of the whole of Op Granby. Thud and Blunder, our contribution gets a mention on what shows as page 44.

Apologies, I can't post the proper link as I haven't reached the magic number of posts yet, but a google search should bring the document up.

Regards,
BW7A