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Forum: Military Aviation

13th May 2016, 11:29

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Britain's Air to Air Refuelling Capability

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Posted By Roland Pulfrew

Not much really. Think span of control. Average...

Not much really. Think span of control. Average Station circa 1200-1500 personnel = 1 gp capt. Brize, which has expanded dramatically, circa 3000 mil/civ personnel (maybe more now). At full...

Forum: Military Aviation

9th May 2016, 14:58

Replies: 68

Britain's Air to Air Refuelling Capability

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Posted By Roland Pulfrew

What's a "Grizzly"? Surely you had an Albert...

What's a "Grizzly"? Surely you had an Albert tucked in behind an Atlas?? ;)

Forum: Military Aviation

4th May 2016, 14:04

Replies: 68

Britain's Air to Air Refuelling Capability

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Posted By Roland Pulfrew

Mel. Not sure it changed anything at the time of...

Mel. Not sure it changed anything at the time of FSTA (everything that needed AAR had a plan for P&D (MRA4, Nim R1, C-130 J & K, E-3 (as well as Tornado, Typhoon and JSF)) but nowadays........... ...

Forum: Military Aviation

4th May 2016, 13:45

Replies: 68

Britain's Air to Air Refuelling Capability

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Posted By Roland Pulfrew

Mel, not strictly true. It was always assumed...

Mel, not strictly true. It was always assumed that UK programmes needing AAR would have specified a UK compatible P&D refuelling method. This was the case with FSTA and both AirTanker and TTSC were...

Forum: Military Aviation

4th May 2016, 09:17

Replies: 68

Britain's Air to Air Refuelling Capability

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Posted By Roland Pulfrew

Oh God, here we go again. First there were the...

Oh God, here we go again. First there were the dinosaurs.......

In procurement in the late 90s/early 00s Defence was not allowed to buy stuff that provided "interoperability" (fortunately common...

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