10 Percent True - Tales from the Cockpit

F-15 Eagle Driver, "Disco" Dildy (Part 4)

October 30, 2023 Steve Davies / Douglas C. Dildy Season 55 Episode 4
10 Percent True - Tales from the Cockpit
F-15 Eagle Driver, "Disco" Dildy (Part 4)
10 Percent True - Tales from the Cockpit
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0:00 intro
1:16 Bodo - why F-15s were there
6:20 intercepting Bear/Badger/Coot without a radar lock and why
12:05 interesting intercepts 
15:55 Naval Badgers a different challenge 
16:44 “KGB Coot”
18:00 Velocity Search vs TWS?
20:10 SIGINT 
25:25 levels of “co-operation” of the intercepted 
31:25 no IRST, no loss?
38:00 continued but a hostile witness!
45:35 HOBS and associated tactics 
54:40 MATRA story
1:01:10 “Eagle Eye”
1:10:15 defensive shortcomings
1:15:20 Light Grey Aloofness/Ego-jet/Stratification of the community 
1:35:05 AMRAAM the great equaliser
1:38:30 to share the secrets of employment or not?
1:45:15 Jekyll & Hyde?
1:48:10 loose ends and YT comments questions including VMAX, can you trust the books? 
2:04:00 callsign story

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