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[USER=209]@Hood[/USER]To me then Lightning comes across as basically a piloted SAM. You've got ground based radar providing the early warning and then mid course updates via CGI to get the aircraft into the endgame intercept position; the pilot then takes over for final acquisition and then engagement with short range weapons (guns, rockets, missiles). It was effectively replaced by Bloodhound Mk II in the mid 60s as the primary defence approach but remained in service.It's very different from the all weather fighter approach of finding, targeting, engaging by itself.A lot of it comes from language e.g. Fighter = Interceptor in most people's minds as one part of the wider air defence system (including "Fighter"Command) rather than the Fighter = All Weather Fighter that operates much more individually
[USER=209]@Hood[/USER]
To me then Lightning comes across as basically a piloted SAM. You've got ground based radar providing the early warning and then mid course updates via CGI to get the aircraft into the endgame intercept position; the pilot then takes over for final acquisition and then engagement with short range weapons (guns, rockets, missiles). It was effectively replaced by Bloodhound Mk II in the mid 60s as the primary defence approach but remained in service.
It's very different from the all weather fighter approach of finding, targeting, engaging by itself.
A lot of it comes from language e.g. Fighter = Interceptor in most people's minds as one part of the wider air defence system (including "Fighter"Command) rather than the Fighter = All Weather Fighter that operates much more individually
