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OFFICES.Follow us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/aviationnewsmagazine or on Twitter @AvNewsMag“When returning to Denmark I took
up the position of deputy squadron
commander in my old unit, 725 at Karup
air base.”AIR DEFENCE
The F-100 continued to serve with Esks
727 and 730 until the early 1980s and
during that time the type maintained a
high pro le in the RDAF and with NATO.
The aircraft was never comfortable in
the air defence role, but the pilots trained
for it nonetheless and the arrival of the
Sidewinders in the late 1960s sharpened
this training.
The Hawker Hunter F.51s of Esk 724
were retired in 1974 and the F-100s of Esk
727 and Esk 730 assumed a secondary
role of air defence over the Baltic and were
tted with Sidewinder air-to-air missiles.
Previously, managing air-to-air combat had
been largely a question of developing and
practising evasion manoeuvres.
The weapons training area at Oksbøl
was usually defended by Lockheed F-104
Star ghters of Esk 723 and Esk 726 and
the Hunter F.51s of Esk 724. When using
the ranges during exercises, the F-100shad to run the gauntlet of these ghters,
which provided a formidable opposition.
The combination of slower, but very
manoeuvrable Hunters and fast F-104s
seemed to be a great defensive tactic.
Though not capable of tight manoeuvring,
the F-104s were able to able to evade the
F-100s by going into a supersonic vertical
climb. The Hunters would then manoeuvre
behind the Huns and so obtain a kill. Hans
Fenneberg: “Even with full afterburner
and half aps you had to be super good
to out-turn the Hunter. So, we chose to
use the new “energy manoeuvring” that
the Americans had developed in Vietnam.
However, for us this was difficult. It was
better to nd a big cloud!”Zetterquist had much the same
experience when faced with the Hunter.
“Manoeuvring with the Hunter close-in
was almost impossible if you were alone,
but of course with more than one F-100
you might be able to get the Hunter in
an unfavourable position – their ability
to turn very tight and retain speed made
them formidable ‘enemies’,” he said. The
Sidewinders certainly gave the F-100 a
decided advantage in air-to-air combat,
although the Hun was never intended to be
a dog ghter.
The Danish F-100s soldiered on in the
dual role until 1980 when Esk 727 began
converting to the General Dynamics
F-16 Fighting Falcon. The process was
completed in April 1981 and Esk 730
became fully operational on the F-16 in
August 1982.
The passing of the Hun was marked
by a take-off from Skrydstrup of eight
TF-100Fs which undertook a 90-minute
sortie, over ying various other bases before
returning to retirement.
Several of the aircraft were delivered to
the Turkish Air Force and others returned to
the United States.82 Aviation News incorporating Jets September 2018
A three-ship of F-100Ds taxi to the runway at Karup. Flyvevåbnets Historiske SamlingROYAL DANISH AIR FORCE F-100
SUPER SABRE WEAPONRY
The main weapons carried were:- Mk.82 and Mk.83 low-drag general purpose bombs
- LAU-3 2.75in folding n aerial rocket (FFAR) launchers
- 2.75in folding n aerial rocket (FFAR) launchers
- AGM-12 Bullpup air-to-surface missiles
- AIM-9 Sidewinder air-to-air missile
- Four integral 20mm Pontiac M39A1 cannons