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Forum: Military Aviation
1st Nov 2014, 11:46
Replies: 1,628
Views: 482,724
Posted By HAS59

We have just six E-3D's with seven crews (plus...

We have just six E-3D's with seven crews (plus two more on 54(R) sqn).
(maybe we've fixed the 7th jet that was rammed and broken by now)

NATO Tasking probably takes up all the available aircraft...
Forum: Military Aviation
1st Nov 2014, 09:18
Replies: 1,628
Views: 482,724
Posted By HAS59

However ... the point of Leadership and...

However ...
the point of Leadership and Government is to provide "the Great British Public" what it needs and not what it wants.

but then again ... there is an election looming.
Forum: Military Aviation
30th Oct 2014, 10:41
Replies: 1,628
Views: 482,724
Posted By HAS59

thread drift

Maybe this Sentinel story should have had its own thread but ...

It is worth mentioning that no Maritime Patrol aircraft ever ID'd a target on its radar or any other sensor ...

The people...
Forum: Military Aviation
29th Oct 2014, 07:22
Replies: 1,628
Views: 482,724
Posted By HAS59

Scepticism isn't negativity

The reason some of us are wary of what the MOD do with regard to our maritime capability is that some of us know precisely what we have lost.
I am not sure that those currently in the MOD are fully...
Forum: Military Aviation
28th Oct 2014, 17:46
Replies: 1,628
Views: 482,724
Posted By HAS59

good

JTO - Good to hear that about the weight and hopefully corporate excess baggage.

Maybe - just maybe it might come good - but ...

Maritime Training for the crews?
Still going to use the Army...
Forum: Military Aviation
28th Oct 2014, 17:36
Replies: 1,628
Views: 482,724
Posted By HAS59

Weight ...

What are they going to take out to add extra sensors on? The Raytheon locked boxes? If so - goody, but read what they said. Next year they are (maybe) going to sign off the radar tweak.
Don't hold...
Forum: Military Aviation
28th Oct 2014, 17:22
Replies: 1,628
Views: 482,724
Posted By HAS59

Upgrade Sentinels - why bother?

You can’t blame Raytheon for touting for more defence cash –they are in business to make a profit. But Sentinel even with a ‘tweaked’ radar is still just a one sensor platform.
The parliamentary...
Forum: Military Aviation
28th Oct 2014, 13:53
Replies: 1,628
Views: 482,724
Posted By HAS59

weapons etc

so if my boys book of 'planes is right, the P-8A comes with:

High-Altitude Antisubmarine Weapon Capability
Multi-static active coherent acoustic capability
Maritime surveillance radar
Signal...
Forum: Military Aviation
27th Oct 2014, 12:10
Replies: 1,628
Views: 482,724
Posted By HAS59

I wish I hadn't bothered ...

or

read what I actually said ...

I am not confused between nuclear weapons and ye olde depth charges - only 'NR' mentioned his role in history re Air Dropped Depth Charges shortly after a...
Forum: Military Aviation
26th Oct 2014, 19:13
Replies: 1,628
Views: 482,724
Posted By HAS59

I should have read it twice ...

Thanks PN,

Yes he said "Air dropped depth charge"

I was referring to the Air Dropped Nuclear Depth Charge (B-57, US supplied for selected NATO allies)

I said " while the British atomic...
Forum: Military Aviation
26th Oct 2014, 18:17
Replies: 1,628
Views: 482,724
Posted By HAS59

B57 Nuclear Bomb

Mr Neptunus Rex sir, while the British atomic weapons may have disappeared from the RAF inventory in the late 60's ...

A brief google discovered this ...

"The B57 could be deployed by most...
Forum: Military Aviation
21st Apr 2014, 20:38
Replies: 1,628
Views: 482,724
Posted By HAS59

FSTA

Just a random thought, is there any way to get out of the current FSTA money drain? Is this something SDSR 15/16 could look at? and ... What alternative could we buy/lease to replace it with?

Not...
Forum: Military Aviation
21st Apr 2014, 10:56
Replies: 1,628
Views: 482,724
Posted By HAS59

Long Range

Onceapilot,

I don't believe I am wrong, but I do agree that we may differ...

I do not doubt that some of the Tornado/Tanker/Tanker/Tanker combinations carried out some successful long...
Forum: Military Aviation
15th Apr 2014, 16:20
Replies: 1,628
Views: 482,724
Posted By HAS59

Rotary

Ah but look at all the Chinooks and re-vamped Puma's we're going to have.
Just the thing for shifting sandbags or dead badgers around the west country.
Forum: Military Aviation
14th Apr 2014, 12:24
Replies: 1,628
Views: 482,724
Posted By HAS59

Strategic Strike?

What a laugh ... we have only one long range bomber in the RAF right now and that is the Lancaster.

An ancient Tornado lugging around a pair of StormShadows looks very impressive taking off from...
Forum: Military Aviation
23rd Jan 2014, 13:06
Replies: 1,628
Views: 482,724
Posted By HAS59

not enough aircraft ... too many gaps

Dear Biggus,
just to ad to your statement,

"the UK government is still doing..... "fisheries patrols, environmental monitoring etc etc.... using aircraft, but in a far more efficient way than...
Forum: Military Aviation
16th Jan 2014, 10:14
Replies: 1,628
Views: 482,724
Posted By HAS59

Money

You guys ...

you keep on saying "There is no money"
and yet ... there is a huge amount of money which the government is using ... for other things. Often wasteful or downright foolish.

If we...
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