In message , Kevin Brooks
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"Paul J. Adam" wrote in message
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Others (Ed particularly but others too) will have better information,
but falling back on "Clashes" there was a SIGINT centre called 'Teaball'
which did just this: the trouble was getting its messages relayed
through often-flaky radio links and acted upon in a timely manner.

I thought there was an EC-121 usually performing this kind of work?

Teaball's info was radioed to a relay aircraft, codenamed Luzon (usually
a KC-135), but the radios on Luzon were flaky and prone to interference
and _that_ was the reliability problem.

Also, there was a complex structure of "who controlled what units when"
which varied by mission and depended on "whose radios were working": Red
Crown, Disco, College Eye and Teaball all could be in charge at
different times in a mission.

Sometimes it seems a miracle any of the pilots involved survived.

--
When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
W S Churchill

Paul J. Adam MainBoxatjrwlynch[dot]demon{dot}co(.)uk