You are on a mission.....

A Fan Song has a warbly growl. When two sites have you it sounds a lot
worse.


At Berbera Somalia (supposedly 'friendly') in 1983, we got lit up and tracked
by an SA-2 site, among other things. In response, the Connie (? I think), sent
a pair of TARPS F-14s near the sites within a day or so - big surprise, they
were fired upon.

Our Sensor 3 was pretty wound up after this event happened. Same crew was
involved in the Tashkent incident a month before, when that Soviet Kara-class
cruiser fired an SA-7 vertically, which then began to track the passing P-3...
According to the Soviets at the next INCSEA conference, the crew of the P-3 was
notified by a broadcast on Channel 16 by the Soviets that they were announcing
a closure of the airspace for a planned missile test. From the right rear
observer window, it looked like it came out of the SA-N-4 mount on Tashkent's
port side - the pilot in the right seat hollered a warning and rolled over,
diving away from the rising column of smoke, angling in our general direction.


Life with that VP-48 crew was always interesting.

v/r
Gordon
====(A+C====
USN SAR

Its always better to lose -an- engine, not -the- engine.