QRA tanker up...

[YorkshireTown]

Heading north @ 5am today.

Anyone?

[ORAC]

Wow! They actually have a QRA tanker? Things sure have changed since the 90s...

[Razor61]

It went out at around 3'ish and came back 8:30'ish.
bit of a normal affair now though isn't it?

[TonkaEngO]

Pray tell....how do I distinguish between a 'QRA' tanker and a 'normal' one?

[Yeller_Gait]

A normal one does not go flying at 3 am?

[ukmil]

Tonka QRA 1 went up at leuchars at 3.40am, followed by QRA2 at 4.20 am, both arrived back at 7.30 am

[M609]

2 x Tu-160 intercepted 70nm NW of Bardufoss by RNoAF F-16s this morning, according to media. (Their source CAOC3) The aircraft followed the Russians for 45 minutes before RTB.

[Brain Potter]

A normal one does not go flying at 3 am?

Except when it is moonlighting as an AT asset

[TonkaEngO]

Yeller gait

So only 10's/Timmy's on QRA fly at night/early hours?

[pontifex]

Of course we had QRA tankers. When I was on tankers in the 70s it was called Operation Dragonfly (and it was a lot of fun).

[FFP]

Timmy's on QRA ?

Behave yourself....

[stickmonkeytamer]

Does anything else go up to play? E-3D or the like now that we don't have radars looking that far north?

SMT