SAC & Enemy Missile Projection Estimates

[AS.12]

Re:  RAF confidence in penetration

I once spoke with a former Vulcan pilot whose crew had a specific target in Ukraine.  They were fairly confident about ingress as they would be running-in a few minutes behind SAC 'rolling-back' the front-line defences with the first wave, plus disruption to C3 systems with all the EMP and ICBMs going off deep in the USSR.

What they weren't confident about was getting home.  In fact they had no expectation of that; just find a long road to try to land.

[wikxie]

Re the B70 self defense missiles. Project Pye Wacket  - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pye_Wacket

[NARSES2]

What they weren't confident about was getting home.  In fact they had no expectation of that; just find a long road to try to land.

Yup. A BBC documentary on the UK Deterrent and quoted by me before has an ex Vulcan pilot recounting how they were advised by their Wing Co. "to carry on East until you run out of fuel, bale out and settled down with a plump Mongolian lady" 

[jcf]

What they weren't confident about was getting home.  In fact they had no expectation of that; just find a long road to try to land.

Yup. A BBC documentary on the UK Deterrent and quoted by me before has an ex Vulcan pilot recounting how they were advised by their Wing Co. "to carry on East until you run out of fuel, bale out and settled down with a plump Mongolian lady" 

On the Beach: the RAF, Neville Shute's shortest story. 

[KJ_Lesnick]

Re the B70 self defense missiles. Project Pye Wacket  - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pye_Wacket

Yup