Two Typhoons chasing a Puma
I noticed a NOTAM this morning advising of fast jet intercepts in the locality of my strip and thought nothing more about it until later in the day I heard what was obviously a pair of Typhoons chasing each other around the sky which is very normal for this area.
Then I heard the sound of an eggbeater in among the cacophony of sound and on going outside watched the two Typhoons chasing the Puma which was maneuvering quite vigorously at low level.
I'd previously observed a similar scenario being played out in 2012 between two Typhoons and a Merlin, in the run up to the London Olympics and can only surmise this was another exercise to see if the Typhoon is a match against a low level, slow speed target.
Can anyone enlighten me as to the object of this exercise which appeared to follow the same pattern as the one in 2012 and with a similar outcome i.e Typhoons 0 Puma 1.