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Real World Air Defence

Posted: 01 May 2014 12:42
by Quickfire
A rare foray into the :maf: era for mich myself.

Whilst wasting another hour on finding the :zforce: 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

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

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Re: Real World Air Defence

Posted: 01 May 2014 13:53
by Chopper
Wasn't this system one of the first ship borne setups? I seem to recall these replacing turrets on some vessels.

Re: Real World Air Defence

Posted: 01 May 2014 13:59
by Chopper
Bingo, the USS Boston. CA-69.

I read too much.

Re: Real World Air Defence

Posted: 01 May 2014 16:18
by 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 :duh:

Re: Real World Air Defence

Posted: 01 May 2014 19:14
by ODB


And now you know and knowing is half the battle.

Re: Real World Air Defence

Posted: 01 May 2014 19:19
by 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?

Re: Real World Air Defence

Posted: 01 May 2014 19:23
by Thundershot
Chopper wrote:Wasn't this system one of the first ship borne setups? I seem to recall these replacing turrets on some vessels.