Nige I just hopefully trying to point out to people that maybe its coincedence. I cannot say for certain they stopped AAR cause of the XV235 incident but most get impression on the Prune thats the case, we still do AAR refuelling training that i know as we have to checks on probe etc etc . So if we still doing live AAR sorties for crew training then there is no reason why Nimrod has stopped in the hotter regions,with as you know reduced a/c (hope thats public info
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Maybe its just the start of the running down of Nim tempo in the region ? I cant answer that , only the big cheeses that run the military can say answer that i guess !