Many of us thought that scary bangs included, it couldn’t get any better ! I’ve just read that the missiles to be installed can’t be used in poor visibility.

John Green

Ah, that will be Rapier then. When I worked along side them down the Falklands 82, they were optically tracked to the target.

I don’t understand you’re problem with this type of SAM, bearing in mind the target aircraft also has to visually aquire its target, therefore, whats a visibility issue for one, is a visibility issue for the other.

Rapier was upgraded to ‘Blindfire’ after the Falklands so I don’t know how much better it became.

I wrote in my diary at the time the system was “..a little fussy..” but I believe they were firing off older rounds taken out of storage. Care had to be taken when stood behind the missile (even 100ft away) when fired as it would lob a 2lb plastic cap very high speed at you.

Anybody on here work with ‘Blindfire’ know the difference?

Baz

Hope he calls it Olympic II…………

…..not allowed!:rolleyes:

These short range SAMs are just another string to the air defence bow.

People are getting hung up on Airbus/B767 as weapon of choice, however, it may be a smaller aeroplane, one easier to steal/hijack. A Beechcraft or a Pa31 (example) would cause considerable destruction if used. A SAM would deny accurate use of one of these aircraft.

Baz

All we need now is a fibre-glass replica of the iceberg……..:rolleyes:

Missile deployment.

Damned if you do, damned if you don’t.

Putting these missiles on roof tops and having air cover close by and telling the world is indicating to any would be hi-jacker of our intention to not make it easy, flying an airliner into the games.

Even a Pa28 flown by a terrorist could cause a lot of fatalities in a crowded arena. It may be smaller and less destructive but, it would be seen as a triumph in their eyes.

Maybe by advertising the deployment, the terrorist would see the pitfalls of such attack and try a more (managable?) attack on the ground.(which might be easier for us to intercept)

If MOD didn’t deploy all these countermeasures and an attack took place from the air, with no intervention, a lot of people will die and we will look pretty stupid.

Baz

Some comedian recently said “Katie Price looks like she’s tattoo’d Katie Price’s face, on her face……”

Soooo..

Aluminum ingots are around $2,500 – $3,000 per metric ton (and dropping)

Who would have forked out £1,860 ($3K) for the pair??:rolleyes:

That would have been a Wonkey then!:D

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