Well, it was classified..lol... certain parts still are.
Yeah, all the mags had published it, but most were not quite 100% accurate by any means... A way early decription of the system was in a book called "Raft of Swords" by Duncan someone, a Canadian writer.. It's a good read if you ever find it...
Lol at the sonobouey on the deck... I used to go out every now and again on Type 6 flights... The airedales were totally fucking insane... Flying along at 10-15,000 feet or higher one minute and the next minute you're looking up at the name of the ship as you fly by.... stomach is still up at the higher altitudes....
Our job was to get you guys out on to the target.... I loved playing beat the computer using an old paper mo board and a pencil
Liked to get you guys out there and get the conversion as quick as possible.... On our end we had to take the name of the ship that you guys said it was, go back to Janes and the shipping schedule and all that and make sure that everything matched up....
I was up with one crew out of BDA who wasted at least 6 boueys trying to drop it in the stack...lololol.... 2 went on the deck of a "fishing trawler" (of course the fishing trawler had a helicoptor deck and all sorts of antennae...Volleyball net stretched across the chopper deck as a disguise...lolol) We listened to all sorts of Russian curses as they opened the boueys and sliced the lines.... Funnier then shit the stuff we would do and the stuff Ivan would do to try to fool us....
Good old days of the Cold War.... Fighting technology with technology, rather than bullets