Foxhunter radars

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DB Selector

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Affected DBID(s)

Sensor 897, Related Aircraft

Summary of Changes

The AI.24 Foxhunter had a... troubled development history and the radars fitted to the initial production aircraft were not at all similar to those on the final Tornado F.3 CSPs. However, in game, they're all the same radar.

General changes:

• [ ] Change Continuous Wave Illumination tag to Interrupted Continuous Wave Illumination for all radars
• [ ] Change the 897 Foxhunter into "AI.24 Foxhunter Stage 1+"
• [ ] Copy the radar - "AI.24 Foxhunter Z List", change date to early 80s, possibly even late 70s
• [ ] Copy the radar - "AI.24 Foxhunter Stage 1", change date to late 80s
• [ ] Copy the radar - "AI.24 Foxhunter Stage 2G", change date to early 90s, add NCTR-JEM
• [ ] Copy the radar - "AI.24 Foxhunter CSP", change date to late 90s, add NCTR-JEM

Fit the radars as follows.

Z List:

• [ ] Aircraft 207

Stage 1:

• [ ] Aircraft 1147
• [ ] Aircraft 99
• [ ] Aircraft 1151
• [ ] Aircraft 1022
• [ ] Aircraft 945 - Not sure about this one, Italian F.3s could have been among the first fitted with Stage 2 radars, but... probably weren't

Stage 1+:

• [ ] Aircraft 308

Stage 2G:

• [ ] Aircraft 483
• [ ] Copy Aircraft 1151, name it "Tornado F.3 (1996)" to get the NCTR-JEM without the upgraded countermeasures

CSP:

• [ ] Aircraft 1149
• [ ] Aircraft 1586
• [ ] Aircraft 1684
• [ ] Aircraft 1685

Sources

https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/gec-marconi-foxhunter-radar.371/ https://www.raf.mod.uk/our-organisation/units/air-historical-branch/post-coldwar-studies/tornado-f3-operations/

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Add a block of cement as well?

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Ha! I'm still trying to work out what to do with the very earliest Tornado ADVs, the Tornado F.2A in the game is allegedly the wrong designation. Tornado F.2 doesn't seem to have actually entered squadron service, but they did build a number (18?), flew them regularly and then stored them in a state such that they could have been reactivated. It looks to me as though the infamous Blue Circle radar was removed from all aircraft and replaced by the Y/W/Z List Foxhunters as the development of the platform continued. Generally, it's all a bit muddled.