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From: adrian@cs.heriot-watt.ac.uk (Adrian Hurt)
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Subject: Re: Persian Gulf Combat Aircraft--The British Aerospace Buccaneer
Message-ID: <1991Feb8.013326.16900@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 8 Feb 91 01:33:26 GMT
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From: adrian@cs.heriot-watt.ac.uk (Adrian Hurt)

In article <1991Feb5.043352.6256@cbnews.att.com> tohall@helios.lerc.nasa.gov (Dave Hall (Sverdrup)) writes:
> <Story about how a US Phantom got behind a RAF Buccaneer and switched on its
fire control radar shortened to save space.>
>								Said that he
>got one helluva surprise. The Brit did an aerail "About Face" and bore down
>on the lumbering F-4 in a heartbeat.

Lucky for the F-4 that the Buccaneer didn't carry Sidewinders.  I wouldn't
advise doing that nowadays, because they do now.  In fact, just about
everything with wings is carrying Sidewinders in the Gulf, which must be
some sort of tribute to the AIM-9.

Back to the Buccaneer; it is doing a "Pathfinder" job.  It uses a laser to
paint a target, onto which a Tornado then drops bombs.  The RAF released
some film of such a team bombing a bridge.  You saw the bridge, with a
cross-hair over one end - this was the Buccaneer's view, and the cross-hair
was where the laser was pointing.  Then you saw an explosion right in the
middle of the cross-hair.

Hmm... Buccaneers, B-52's, and WW2 battleships - this is beginning to look
like a museum.  Now, if we could only get a Lancaster and some Tallboys ... :-)

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