Original upload date: Wed, 03 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMT
Archive date: Mon, 29 Nov 2021 19:34:56 GMT
Finally, the full 30 minute film uploaded for all.
This video was primarily used for RAF recruitment in the 1980s, and follows IX Squadron as they go through the process of receiving a tasking, brief
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ing, planning and then executing a full interdiction mission, including aerial refuelling and being bounced by 'hostile' fighters, in the form of the USAF F-5E Aggressor Squadron that was based in the UK at the time.
If the Cold War had turned hot, this is the kind of operation the RAF would have been called upon to perform, flying low and fast to deliver nuclear weapons or runway denial ordnance.
As a product COI for the MOD (UK) and Crown Copyright, this video is uploaded under the UK's Open Government License as Archival media http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/
This video is sourced from my own VHS library, copies of which are not available from me, so please don't ask.
Permission to host this on Youtube has been kindly granted by the keepers and licensees of the material, the Imperial War Museum.
If you wish to license the original material, please contact them directly.
https://www.iwm.org.uk/commercial/collections-sales-licensing
IWM Catalogue Number: COI 1272
Production Date: 1985
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/1060032921
