View Full Version : Typhoon vs MiG/F15/F18Supers
Boogeyboard
21st Nov 2011, 14:25
Typhoon Exercise (http://www.raf.mod.uk/news/archive/typhoon-exercise-18112011)
Would like to have been a fly on the wall in the crew room for that exercise.
Hope it all went well chaps.
APG63
21st Nov 2011, 14:52
Me too, BB. Looks like it went well. Mind you, is the RAF website going to tell the world about all the things that went wrong???? Sure as Hell 6 Sqn aren't!
Wander00
21st Nov 2011, 15:04
You would have thought someone would have gone through the MOD piece looking for inappropriate apostrophes. But that apart, "Well done, 6 Sqn"
APG63
22nd Nov 2011, 11:36
Ah, looks like this det took up a LOT of logs and eng support. Flying rates back home not so good. Well, we need to fly the flag!
FoxtrotAlpha18
22nd Nov 2011, 23:28
There were no Supers at Bersama Lima...just RAAF and RMAF Classics.
The Supers were at Bersama Shield earlier in the year and flew against RMAF and RSAF only.
I hope the Minister was sold a very expensive watch during the visit (only the oldies will understand this jibe). http://images.ibsrv.net/ibsrv/res/src:www.pprune.org/get/images/smilies/evil.gif
Only the best of bugimatics that have passed the Tiger test!
Lima Juliet
23rd Nov 2011, 05:40
Two Typhoons supported by an RAF VC-10 also deployed to Singapore for a day-long event at Changi Airbase attended by UK Defence Secretary Philip Hammond.
I hope the Minister was sold a very expensive watch during the visit (only the oldies will understand this jibe). :E
LJ
Boogeyboard
23rd Nov 2011, 10:07
Strange how logistics and support on any aircraft become more problematic the sunnier the climes. Layovers in Penang must have been a nightmare. ;)
Widger
24th Nov 2011, 11:38
i see the Trail report states that they all arrived in Malaysia fully serviceable, despite the long 7000 mile journey! That's confidence for you.
Now....if we still had the SHAR and a ship to operate them off...............................OOOHHHHH Sorry, look there..................I've gone and done it.................................woken up WEBF!
The Helpful Stacker
24th Nov 2011, 16:30
How long would it have taken for a carrier to sail to Malaysia from the UK?
Oh and no cheating with the "it could have been pre-deployed" line.
cornish-stormrider
24th Nov 2011, 20:11
Widger, look at the floor, avoid eye contact and back away slowly.
we might have gotten away with it.
Pontius Navigator
29th Nov 2011, 10:32
i see the Trail report states that they all arrived in Malaysia fully serviceable
Even the tanker?
So Malaysia didn't commit the Sukhoi's? They put on a stunning show over KLCC for Merdeka a couple of years back so they're mature enough in service to have been used.
lj101
29th Nov 2011, 17:06
Even the tanker?
Yep!
The only unserviceable aircraft was the Hercules.