Quote:
|
Originally Posted by joosrsx
Great stories sir.
I agree that protecting the buff was your best mission  (I'm a buff nav if you didn't catch that earlier).
No matter how many times I hear about these missions I can't believe how f'ing crazy you guys were. Waiting for an SA2 to launch on you, visually looking for that flying telephone pole flying at you, and then pulling a 6g maneuver to get away.
What type of missile was it that "hit" your aircraft? Was it a 2 also?
I know this is nothing like what you did, but back at undergrad nav school we had some sims where we had RWR gear and did our normal TOT missions but had to call out maneuvers for threats. It was fun doing a lot of the mission on the fly cause you were off the black-line and then all the other stuff that came with this new challenge along with all the other ones. Now I have an EWO that does as the EA/EP and makes the calls.
Sir, I can't tell you how much I respect the job you did at the time you did it  |
Hi,
Don't call me Sir - I haven't worn any Rank for quite a while and I'm not
that old...
Ironically, I may well have escorted the very ship you're flying. When we flew MigCap, we escorted Buffs both to and from the target areas. These usually flew in 3 plane formations in which one, an H model (latest and last of the series) carried only ECM gear.
IIRC, only the H models are still flying and the last of these rolled off the line in Wichita back in '62. Amazing that this aircraft, the precursor of most modern commercial aircraft would be so enduring.
It was amazing the power these things could exert, we could actually feel the concussion waves from the ordinance...and this was at angels 30!! I can't imagine what it would be like to have been on the ground.
Not my thing though - you guys have something like 16 hr. endurance, IMHO, that's waay too long for a Government Job. Longest sortie I ever flew was like 8.5 hrs. and I thought I was gonna die. BTW, you should change your screen name to
Steel RainMan... lol
Happy Motoring!... Jim'99