Real World Air Defence

[Quickfire]

A rare foray into the era for mich myself.

Whilst wasting another hour on finding the attack cannon, realised the Air Defence is worth flagging as a US Navy SAM known as the RIM 2 Terrier in service from c. 1957 into the ? mid-1960s. Or it's at least an analog.

Also it didn't seem to be on listed on ODB's handy link (although wilful ignorance of certain designations of the Joe line is a given in Haus Schnellfeuer)
http://forums.yojoe.com/toys-1982-1998/ ... world.html







Colour version of an early model perhaps reinforces the case too ...

[Chopper]

Wasn't this system one of the first ship borne setups? I seem to recall these replacing turrets on some vessels.

[Chopper]

Bingo, the USS Boston. CA-69.

I read too much.

[Graham_UK]

I've always wondered, when the 2 missiles have been fired how the hell do they re-load? They'd need a cherry picker on deck

[ODB]

And now you know and knowing is half the battle.

[Graham_UK]

Blody hell! So basically a third of the ship is used to load the missiles! Maybe a cherry picker would have been less hasstle?

[Thundershot]

Wasn't this system one of the first ship borne setups? I seem to recall these replacing turrets on some vessels.