YGTBSM, it's Stuart's Wild Weasel

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Medicman71 wrote: Sun Mar 19, 2023 10:55 am Those guys are beyond insane. If you haven't seen this video, you'll see how crazy this mission is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uh4yMAx2UA&t=16s
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Not to mention that when the Wild Weasel program was started in 1965, the technolog was in its’ infancy. The threat detector scopes just basically gave a bearing to the radar emitter. The rest was up to the hunter/killer team aircrews. The weapons available at the time required a direct attack upon the site.
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Apologies Gents - I've not had a chance to start this yet.
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Life happens. No need to apologize. This is only a hobby, not a way to earn a living.
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Very true - I'll get to it - but I might get the Sparkvark done for the MM GB first. I've also a need to build a few Red Arrow aircraft too, and a Steampunk Spitfire for my daughter...
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A steampunk Spitfire… sounds intriguing… 🤔
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Yeah, my daughter wrote me a semi-steampunk based short story for Father's day, where an RAF pilot flying a red painted Spitfire Floatplane went on a search for a clockwork Kraken. It was pretty good, and made me think I'd like to build her the Spitfire - so I've picked up a KP Spitfire mk.V floatplane and will attempt to build it and put it on a base - I may even add a few extra struts etc. just to make it more steam/diesel punk.
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Stuart wrote: Fri Jun 23, 2023 12:06 pm Apologies Gents - I've not had a chance to start this yet.
YGBSM! (See what I did there? :giggles: )
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