RAF Post Live Apache Missile Back to the UK

[bspatz]

See link regarding the RAF posting live missiles back to the UK

RAF posted live Apache helicopter missile back to the UK | swns.com (http://swns.com/raf-posted-live-apache-helicopter-missile-back-to-the-uk-121140.html)


Methinks this is likely to be an Army problem or does the RAF provide support for Apache missiles?

[soddim]

Shades of the Sidewinders airfreighted in the Falklands war when a well-meaning loadie pulled all the 'Remove before Flight' pins.

[Occasional Aviator]

bspatz,

surely you know that anything that goes wrong with any type of aircraft or with the tri-service movements organisation is down to the RAF, either due to incompetence or just a determination to mess everyone about?

[glad rag]

I132 Aviation Supply Squadron, 7 Air Assault Battalion REME at Wattisham.

Quite how the RAF is getting it for this is (almost) beyond me.

[Saintsman]

When the package was opened inside a hanger at RAF Wattisham at 11.20am on Monday October 27 2008 stunned technicians found the live warhead.



Slow news day?

[Cows getting bigger]

"RAF Wattisham" - aaaah, those were the days........ :)

[airborne_artist]

Quite how the RAF is getting it for this is (almost) beyond me.

Anything that flies belongs to the RAF. Every fule knows that :uhoh:

[Roadster280]

No one has been disciplined due to the lack of evidence against any RAF individual

Mwahahaha! I know what the writer meant, but it could be mischievously read as "after an RMP investigation, if we could have pinned it on the RAF, we would have, but since we couldn't, we let it go".

[VinRouge]

Anyone know by what means this pod was transferred from theatre to the UK?

[cornish-stormrider]

Uh - air?

using the normal supply chain so either herc, 17, timmy or 10

[Two's in]

Now it's not like me to pick on lazy-arsed journo's with nothing better to do than stir up a bit of mischief, but am I the only one to notice the date in this so-called "article";

When the package was opened inside a hanger at RAF Wattisham at 11.20am on Monday October 27 2008 stunned technicians found the live warhead.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/170/392215547_bf0e298327.jpg

[PPRuNe Pop]

Nice to see such a good story only to find it was 2 years old! Why is it...........oh never mind its closed now :ugh: