Title:JAGUAR RECONNAISSANCE FOOTAGE OF OPERATIONS OVER NORTHERN IRAQ, MAY 1992 [Allocated Title]
Film Number:MIL 473
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Summary: Reconnaissance footage from fixed front end camera on a Royal Air Force (RAF) Jaguar fighter aircraft.
Description: Footage appears to be sections from a single two and a half hour patrol over the mountainous Dahuk region of Northern Iraq. The Head Up Display (HUD) is the same in every clip, and the other aircraft in the patrol is a British Jaguar, suggesting the reconnaissance aircraft is a Jaguar itself.
00:00. Flight footage. Very poor tracking quality.
00:50. New section. Mountainous region, sparsely inhabited, suggesting Northern Iraq. Pilot humming to himself, including giving a rendition of "Zippedy Doo-Dah"!
05:25. New section. Snowy mountains. Cockpit music playing.
11:50. New section. Snowy mountains, no villages apparent or anything visual over and above the scenery.
13:50. New section.
14:15. New section. Patrol flies over an airfield. Very flat country with mountainous background, possibly in the Zammar / Dahuk area of Northern Iraq.
15:10. New section. Continued patrol over mountains.
15:30. New section. Fog bound landing and taxiing from runway. An aircraft (probably a VC-10) passes in front of the camera.
18:00. New section. Mid air refuelling showing two tankers and a flight of at least four British Jaguars. Switches to snowy mountains again, later switching to a lower set of mountain ranges and flat lands with no snow covering. Across large lake, possibly north-west of Mosul.
29:40. Reconnaissance over a large city, probably Mosul, with a derelict and blockaded airstrip and what appears to be the wreckage of a small passenger airliner on the ground.
30:20. New section. Repeat of the previous city reconnaissance footage
31:50. END
