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nazca_steve
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So does this mean the Decca Doppler was associated with the AS-30 firing systems? Excuse ignorance here, but I’m trying to understand what gave the B.15 the capability to launch this weapon over the 16. I’m guessing it needed some kind of look-down radar to target ships.

Can anyone help on this?

** UPDATE: done a bit of homework and realised the Decca Doppler was a radar nav aid, silly me 😉 But if anyone can shed some light on the AS.30 I’d love to hear it. All I know now is that it was optically guided via flares on the bum-end of the missile and adjustments were made via radio. Lovely stuff.