Re: another plane crash ...

"Steve Terry" <gFOURwwk@tesco.net> wrote in message
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> "Dave" <davenpat@btopenworld.com> wrote in message
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>> Brian Morrison wrote:
>>> nntp@benison.co.uk wrote:
>>>> On Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:38:23 +0100, Brian Morrison
>>>> <scrapspam@fenrir.org.uk>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> You can't hit a radar you can't see, and terrain masking
>>>>> works both ways.
>>>> The idea is to fix the target at altitude and then come in fast and
>>>> low.
>>>> Then climb,  firing your anti radar missile and dive back down for
>>>> cover
>>>> and
>>>> fly out at low level.
>>>
>>> I thought the advantage of ALARM was that you can fire it and then
>>> leaving it hanging on its parachute until something excites it enough to
>>> detach and rocket down on its target.
>>>
>> To the best of my knowledge ALARM was never fitted to an F3
>> Dave
>>
> I don't think there would be room for them and their system,
> unless you removed their nice new AIM-120 AMRAAM's
> Steve Terry
>
Found this:
http://www.raf.mod.uk/equipment/tornadof3.cfm

"In the months before the 2003 Gulf War, a small number of Tornado F3s
underwent a modification programme to allow them to operate in the
Suppression of Enemy Air Defences (SEAD) role.
The modifications permitted the carriage of a pair of ALARM missiles
in place of the Skyflash or AMRAAM missiles, but the modified aircraft
were not in the event deployed during the conflict"

So there are some F3's with ALARM, and with the Typhoon F2 increasingly
taking it's place, you would expect more F3's to be re-equipped with ALARM

Steve Terry
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Dave (04.07.2009 01:49)