Intercepting Wandering Bears & Blackjacks Again (Merged)
ACC,
What I was wondering was, did they move the English/Welsh border just for you?
If you have the borders showing in Google Earth, it seems to kink around your property!
What I was wondering was, did they move the English/Welsh border just for you?
If you have the borders showing in Google Earth, it seems to kink around your property!
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We used to record our intercepts on the "Order of the Red Star" board in the Ops Room. My name is there 16 times. I wonder what happened to the board when they closed the site to controllers and made it a remote.
The Adjutant,
The order of the Red Star was displayed in the hallway just before you entered the dome pride of place with photos from the storm damage (when the dome and Radar were damaged). I beleieve the room used to be the Radar watch office was turned into a T Bar. It was there when the RRH closed I have no idea where it went to next.
Bear in mind Saxa Vord is now a Holiday Resort!!!!!! Don't believe me then Google it.
EJ
The Adjutant,
The order of the Red Star was displayed in the hallway just before you entered the dome pride of place with photos from the storm damage (when the dome and Radar were damaged). I beleieve the room used to be the Radar watch office was turned into a T Bar. It was there when the RRH closed I have no idea where it went to next.
Bear in mind Saxa Vord is now a Holiday Resort!!!!!! Don't believe me then Google it.
EJ
>Why have you got a Spoonrest in your garden?<
I couldn't possibly comment (cough). Off the record, it's a combined Tazcomm jammer and comms antenna for speaking to Captain Ivan when he comes this way.
No, not really. It's just an amateur HF and VHF system.
I couldn't possibly comment (cough). Off the record, it's a combined Tazcomm jammer and comms antenna for speaking to Captain Ivan when he comes this way.
No, not really. It's just an amateur HF and VHF system.
The Sun
The picture that AonP found in the Sun was taken on a JMC earlier in the year - hence Mr Squirrel is correct.
The only picture from the "8 Bear" day, I believe, is the one below:
Nice piccy
LJ
The only picture from the "8 Bear" day, I believe, is the one below:
Nice piccy
LJ
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According to www.vg.no F-16s from Bodø launched just before 0600 this morning to intercept two Tu-160s in international airspace west of Scotland. (!) RAF Tornados did the same according to the same source.
I'm a bit suspicious about the intercept location.....
I'm a bit suspicious about the intercept location.....
Well, something VERY noisy launched from Brize at around 0400Z........
Whether 'twas a tanker supporting Q, I know not.
By the way, is the Sam Fox page from the Sun Calendar which we used to take with us on such trips still in Duffy's?
Whether 'twas a tanker supporting Q, I know not.
By the way, is the Sam Fox page from the Sun Calendar which we used to take with us on such trips still in Duffy's?
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Given that the Army are now in charge of our ground-based AD assets, coupled with their reluctance to do anything that isn't hot and sandy or hot and rocky based, I've taken a leaf out of ACW's book. I don't have a Fansong in the back garden (Mrs Green Meat would take a very dim view, just like the time I suggested having a Canberra in the back garden - less to mow, surely?) but I am considering basing the advanced ADGE system known as MILK BOTTLE, often found with the corresponding FIREWORK projectile, in my garden to guard against incursion into our airspace 
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Regarding first intercept of the Blackjacks on Friday: Apparently they had company from the Bodø QRA in oceanic airspace north-ish of Tromsø/ENTC on their way south.
Emirates on their way to New York got a VID also apparently!
Emirates on their way to New York got a VID also apparently!
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From TheScum's linky:
"RAF crews hold up Sun PAGE THREE GIRLS for Russian approval. A Bear crewman once responded holding a magazine cover showing a tractor.”
Hehe, nice one Ivan
"RAF crews hold up Sun PAGE THREE GIRLS for Russian approval. A Bear crewman once responded holding a magazine cover showing a tractor.”
Hehe, nice one Ivan
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RAF crews hold up Sun PAGE THREE GIRLS for Russian approval. A Bear crewman once responded holding a magazine cover showing a tractor.”
Perhaps in these PC days, you should hold up the centrefold from either
http://www.earthmoversmagazine.co.uk/ or http://www.classictractormagazine.co.uk/
instead of The Sun's Sam Fox?
http://www.earthmoversmagazine.co.uk/ or http://www.classictractormagazine.co.uk/
instead of The Sun's Sam Fox?
how far south did they go - Bergan, Faroes, Shetland?
what role are the russians using Blackjack for - is it nuclear strike, anti-shipping or conventional land attack?
what role are the russians using Blackjack for - is it nuclear strike, anti-shipping or conventional land attack?
what role are the russians using Blackjack for
...As aniseed chewy sweets to pull out your fillings! Apparently, PC-ness has not quite reached Russia yet...
The Russians call the TU-160 the "White Swan".
LJ
