Argentine Air Force Budget

[Climebear]

'The most recent purpose-built airfield in the RAF, Mount Pleasant was opened in 1984 to establish a fighter and transport presence in the Islands following the Falklands War. Currently based at Mount Pleasant are No 1435 Flight with 4 Tornado F3s, No 1312 Flight, with a single VC10 tanker and 1 Hercules C1, as well as No 78 Squadron with Chinook and Sea King helicopters. Ground units include No 7, 303 and 751 Signals Units and a Rapier detachment from the RAF Regiment.'

Nice to see that the RAF Website is innacurate in so many ways - or perhaps it's just part of a deception campaign (unfortunatley foiled as the formation of 78 Sqn as a Merlin HC Mk3/3a sqn is also on the website and the RAF Regt's loss of Rapier was well publicised).

[taxydual]

OnlineACM

What's not revealed is where the RN Subs are. And I don't mean subscriptions.
'Once bitten, twice shy' is still a good adage.

I'm not sure of the Spanish translation of it is though.............................

[Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh!]

18 of those are C182s

Cessna 182s? At last; I'm qualified on a front line military Aircraft. Uh oh, what's their upper age limit?

[sarsteph]

Taxydual said:

'Once bitten, twice shy' is still a good adage.

I'm not sure of the Spanish translation of it is though.............................


"Una vez que mordido, dos veces tímido."

Pass that on to the Argies

Translation provided by www.freetranslation.com so if it's wrong it's not my fault!!

[Gainesy]

I'm not sure of the Spanish translation of it is though.............................

Hmm, I seem to remember it was "Gotcha".

[Postman Plod]

Silly question then, if the helicopter detachment at MPA is no longer 78 Sqn, then what is it? And why was it ever a squadron when all the other units down there are flights?

[XV277]

It's returned to being a Flight again

[spheroid]

So, whats the difference between a flight and a Squadron? How many aircraft do you need to have a Squadron?

[Online ACM]

But apart from........

So apart from the the newspapers, the internet, the government, the MOD and the Russians.............you could have given away some really big secrets away.

I stand corrected but I do get fed up with people saying things on this forum that should be kept quite. Yes many things can be gained from elsewhwere but to collate it, analyise it and stick it on this forum is just doing our enemys work for them......but i was wrong in this case so sorry....humble pie eating