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Old 03-23-2012, 11:58 PM
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but the 'winders will need some means to acquire the target and launch. The Harriers have those means built in, but if you wish to fire those missiles without the Harriers, you'd probably need some electronical engineering and parts stripped drom the planes to make it at all feasible. And it of course depends also on what model the missiles are (that being rear-, rear- and side-, or all-aspect).
All very true; the "Sidewinder Growl" is audible through pretty primitive gear as long as you know what contacts to wire up on the bus (cough cough so I'm told cough) but there's a lot of steps to get to that point (uncageing the seeker head, etc.)

95th, maybe you could have the players do business with a unit using a M-730A2 as a prime mover, casually mentioning it had been a full blown Chaparral unit until events made an AD vehicle simply unnecessary and "all of that electronic junk" had been stripped and left back at "base"...or something like that, just a thought.
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