Template:Did you know nominations/IFF Mark III

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The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:34, 25 January 2018 (UTC)

IFF Mark III

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... that the RAF pushed to introduce IFF Mark III after a Short Stirling was shot down by a Bristol Beaufighter who was in turn shot down by another Beaufighter? Source: quote mid-page from Sholto as quoted in Bowden

Reviewed: Plato missile/FABMS

Created by Maury Markowitz (talk). Self-nominated at 19:32, 16 December 2017 (UTC).

Article size and date check out; article is well-sourced; a check indicates no copyplag issues; QPQ done. Hook source is offline but reliable, so AGF. I believe that this is good to go. - The Bushranger _{One ping only} 05:02, 17 December 2017 (UTC)

@The Bushranger: Provided. Maury Markowitz (talk) 14:45, 21 December 2017 (UTC)

On coming to promote this hook, I find no mention of either the Short Stirling or the Bristol Beaufighter in the text of the article. You can't mention them in the hook without them being mentioned by name in the article. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 07:18, 14 January 2018 (UTC)

@Cwmhiraeth: They are, in the quote in the "In service" section. "...a Stirling bomber came back from a raid on the Ruhr. It got lost, and it was assumed to be hostile. Two Beaufighters went to intercept it. One of them shot it down..." - The Bushranger _{One ping only} 22:31, 14 January 2018 (UTC)

That's very strange. I searched for both "Stirling" and "Beaufighter" on the page, and all I found was the image caption. Replacing the tick. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 05:52, 15 January 2018 (UTC)

Sometimes that's happened to me; the ways of Windows Search are, I suppose, known only in a few dark rooms in Redmond! - The Bushranger _{One ping only} 09:33, 15 January 2018 (UTC)