One of the really interesting paragraphs from the article: The UK’s Royal Air Force, flying their new Vulcan bombers, got orders for the exercise, but the pl

One of the really interesting paragraphs from the article: The UK’s Royal Air Force, flying their new Vulcan bombers, got orders for the exercise, but the plucky Brits ignored some of the details. Flying their own attack profiles (essentially cheating) and using highly effective radar jammers, the Brits exposed wide gaps in SAGE capabilities. Despite a generally high success rate claimed for the fighters in “destroying” their targets, the best estimates were that only a quarter of the bombers were intercepted. So not only was this a truly fascinating early computing system, but the signals seemed quite vulnerable to jamming.