"Keith W" wrote in message

| "Larry Cauble" wrote in
| message .. .
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|| As a young sailor (some 30+ years ago) I flew in the back of an EP-3B
|| 'Batrack' aicraft of VQ-1. Years later, I read of the story of the
|| two P-3As that were converted to EP-3Bs in the 1960s.
||
|| The story is that they were CIA-operated out of Taiwan, Germany, etc.
|| with a number of modifications for intelligence collection and agent
|| dropping and various skullduggery. When the CIA was done (by 1968)
|| they were modified into the Navy first reconnaissance EP-3s.
||
|| One intriguing part was that they were supposedly fitted with
|| rear-firing AIM-9 Sidewinders on wing pylons. To discourage MiGs
|| while engaged in overflights...
||
|| This sounds a bit far-fetched to me...has anyone heard of such a
|| thing?
||
|
| Its not that far fetched, the RAF fitted AIM-9's to its Nimrod
| Maritime Patrol aircraft during the Falklands war.
|
| Keith




I think the rear-firing part is the bit that's causing concern.



Would be an interesting series of seperation trials.



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Cheers


Dave Kearton