Hollow out the pod, drop in the Sky Shadow guts, bit of gaffa, power it with an extension lead and a kettle plug. Jobs a good’un.
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This implies similar to the AN/ALQ-101-10:
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Ooo got my ARI’s confused then because thats what I had for the Dash 10. Cheers I’ll add in another section.
Another EW pod used during the war though this time by rotary-wing aviation, was the AN/ALQ-167. Dubbed “Yellow Veil” in British service
In 1982 it would have equipped either Lynx HAS.2 or HAS.3, however most images of it being carried by Lynx are from later conflicts such as the 1991 Gulf War where we see it carried by Lynx HAS.3GM
Ed:- contrary to the info on the museum board, Yellow Veil probably wasn’t introduced until 1986, so equipped Lynx HAS.3 and the later HAS.3GM
The pod’s payload could be configured to a range of different RF bands to spoof a variety of anti-ship and anti-air threats. It was carried by fixed-wing aircraft in US service including A-6, F-14 and F-18, but UK use seems to have been limited to helicopters.
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Very nice, added a section I’ll fluff it out more later.
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They might share the same ARI number as they are both ALQ-101 versions
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Don’t suppose anybody knows whether this doc is a scan of an official AP/AESP, do they?
Lists ARI 23234 (AN/ALQ-101) as being available for Phantom AWG11 (i.e. Phantom FG.1) in addition to Buccaneer SB.2 and Jaguar
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That’s odd. As far as I know the only active ECM ever carried by British Phantoms was the PEWT (Phantom Electronic Warfare Training) pod. And as the name suggests that was only a very basic ECM pod used for aircrew training. This is the only photo I can find of one (it’s apprantly that cylinder under the left wing):
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Added the text for AN/ALQ-101-8 and AN/ALQ-167. Apologies for any typos I OCR’d the images you both sent to save myself from retyping it all out.
My one came from the Buccaneer Strike Study, so you should have access to that. Not sure if the OCR is any better though.
Got some reports in on British RWR capability:
https://community.gaijin.net/issues/p/warthunder/i/Vh5MgLFiOmts
https://community.gaijin.net/issues/p/warthunder/i/o28aoClqe6ac
https://community.gaijin.net/issues/p/warthunder/i/MnOPY3b7YVQe
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I mean, they never like to talk about it but the ELINT Nimrod based at San Felix Island and the crash AEW build programme that resulted are teo of my favourite examples.
I take it that that particular Pod was used in the Falklands where sufficient Early Warning of an Exocet attack was given? I’ve seen a couple of books mention Helicopters towing Active Radar Decoys but none ever state the carrying aircraft.
The EW system initially deployed on Lynx in the Falklands in May '82 was called “Hampton Mayfair” where they basically stuffed some active jamming equipment from a Canberra in to a Lynx and had the antenna strapped on to the side of the helicopter.
Images: Hampton Mayfair
Yellow Veil was a more sophisticated decoy system that to be honest I don’t think was in service until the mid-80s, but the US National Electronics Museum infoboard there says it was used during the conflict.
If it wasn’t around, towed/slung radar reflector decoys might have been a solution.
Initial version of the Yellow Veil pod looks like this with smaller spike antennas
Image: Yellow Veil 1
https://live.staticflickr.com/878/41239119281_c391a673bf_6k.jpg
and the previous photo was Yellow Veil 2 that had a payload for countering Silkworms in the Gulf
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Another case of where ‘Nah, she’ll be right’ paid off.
(If it works, it works.)
Found a quote of a quote in the book The Royal Navy Lynx: An Operational History by Larry Jeram-Croft
The following is an article that appeared in the navy’s Flight Deck magazine, written by Lieutenant Commander Legg, the then commanding officer of 829 Squadron:
‘In 1986, attacks on merchant shipping in the Arabian Gulf increased as the Iran-Iraq war escalated and many ships fell victim to their air launched M39 Exocet, as well as Chinese made Silkworm missiles fired by Iran from the Faw Peninsula. During the Falklands War the Hampton Mayfair anti-Exocet jamming equipment was fitted to the Lynx and briefly deployed, but for Armilla it was decided to introduce a much improved, properly funded and trialled system to protect UK shipping in the Gulf. The Yellow Veil jamming pod was procured and is now a standard fit on all Lynx in theatre. The system is reliable and not only can it be used to protect shipping, but can be used against a wide range of radars and missiles in all spheres of anti-surface warfare.’
So 1986 for Yellow Veil
Book also includes a picture of a more refined, post-Falklands version of the Hampton Mayfair system. Before Yellow Veil replaced it
Nice, so it is a multipurpose jammer. Didn’t think there would be a limit to just shipborn threats and ASMs.
Came across a decent image of the Blue Eric pod
Repurposed gun pod with a large semicircular antenna where the shell ejection port was. Note the radiation hazard warning sticker
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Very nice, and totally noncredible.
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