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<blockquote data-quote="Uyraell" data-source="post: 61684" data-attributes="member: 11738">Loiter time,&nbsp; Range,&nbsp; Endurance, Drop-tanks?.Respectful Hello to you, Sir.If you were at 5000 mts, and went to afterburners as XM607 turned away and climbed-out of attack profile, did you jettison drop-tanks to pursue him?The reason I'm asking is that I have not seen before now any corroborated/supported information on the Range, endurance, or patrol loiter time of your aircraft, nor any Argentine aircraft of the time, for that matter.I had often wondered also, if there was a &quot;line of pursuit&quot; or patrol line that designated the point beyond which you would not continue to pursue an enemy aircraft.With great respect, and without in any way wishing to bring matters political into the discussion, the news media outside Argentina at the time of the Vulcan attacks portrayed the lack of interception of the Vulcans as somewhere between incompetence and plain good fortune for the British. I always took that portrayal as media bias/media ignorance.Years ago, I knew pilots and aircrew from various airforces, and so have a very basic familiarity with the factors involved in an air-interception.Furthermore, the various other actions of the Argentine Air Force during the Malvinas war suggest to me that the personnel were very far indeed from incompetent, when I consider the huge amount of courage it took to air -to-air refuel a Mirage from a Hercules, over water, given the great differences in ias between the two aircraft.&nbsp;&nbsp; It took not only skill, but cojones of steel to achieve a feat like that. An Airforce that can achieve it has very fine people serving in it.I sincerely hope someone is able to translate my English into Spanish for you, because unfortunately I speak very little Spanish, and am only modestly capable in reading it at this stage.Kind Respects and Regards to you Sir, Uyraell.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Uyraell, post: 61684, member: 11738"] [b]Loiter time, Range, Endurance, Drop-tanks?.[/b] Respectful Hello to you, Sir. If you were at 5000 mts, and went to afterburners as XM607 turned away and climbed-out of attack profile, did you jettison drop-tanks to pursue him? The reason I'm asking is that I have not seen before now any corroborated/supported information on the Range, endurance, or patrol loiter time of your aircraft, nor any Argentine aircraft of the time, for that matter. I had often wondered also, if there was a "line of pursuit" or patrol line that designated the point beyond which you would not continue to pursue an enemy aircraft. With great respect, and without in any way wishing to bring matters political into the discussion, the news media outside Argentina at the time of the Vulcan attacks portrayed the lack of interception of the Vulcans as somewhere between incompetence and plain good fortune for the British. I always took that portrayal as [U]media bias/media ignorance[/U]. Years ago, I knew pilots and aircrew from various airforces, and so have a very basic familiarity with the factors involved in an air-interception. Furthermore, the various other actions of the Argentine Air Force during the Malvinas war suggest to me that the personnel were very far indeed from incompetent, when I consider the huge amount of courage it took to air -to-air refuel a Mirage from a Hercules, over water, given the great differences in ias between the two aircraft. It took not only skill, but cojones of steel to achieve a feat like that. An Airforce that can achieve it has very fine people serving in it. I sincerely hope someone is able to translate my English into Spanish for you, because unfortunately I speak very little Spanish, and am only modestly capable in reading it at this stage. Kind Respects and Regards to you Sir, Uyraell. [/QUOTE]

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