Nimrod MRA.4
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Good pictures; thanks. Yours?
Regrettably, Commons debate on future of BAE - News - Stockport Express adds some perspective.
Regrettably, Commons debate on future of BAE - News - Stockport Express adds some perspective.
Will 't bungling Baron's mob ever deliver an aeroplane on time? Let alone on budget.
Not long now until the 60th anniversary of 't 'owd Comet's first flight (27 Jul 1949), tha' knows.
It won't be long now until the Nimrod '2000' will have been a whole decade delayed. What is the latest BWoS estimate for the first one to be delivered to the RAF?
Not long now until the 60th anniversary of 't 'owd Comet's first flight (27 Jul 1949), tha' knows.
It won't be long now until the Nimrod '2000' will have been a whole decade delayed. What is the latest BWoS estimate for the first one to be delivered to the RAF?
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Was there something about MRA4 being terminated at the 9 production aircraft? If so, what happens to the 3 prototypes?
(And let's ignore the stupidity of a "fleet" of 9 MRA4s..... unbelievable).
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(And let's ignore the stupidity of a "fleet" of 9 MRA4s..... unbelievable).
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Kinloss
I suppose the next question could be about Kinloss and its future. Only 9 ac to be based there, plus maybe a couple of asr heli's. Don't know if there are any plans to suppliment the meagre numbers of MRA4s with UAV's as the Americans are doing with the P8?.
Below the Glidepath - not correcting
"The Minister has a clear choice between buying British and buying American - during the debate I argued that it was not only cost-effective to commission the British-built Nimrod aircraft but that it was also sensible from a national security standpoint."
Mr Hunter added: "The British Nimrod aircraft have many advantages over the 40-year-old American option.
Mr Hunter added: "The British Nimrod aircraft have many advantages over the 40-year-old American option.
By all means try and sell the taxpayer on UK jobs, but not on capability or delivery of that capability.
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Capability's okay - the Nimrod has been a very capable sensor platform, although it would help to be sure what the aircraft was expected to do in the future and if that includes ASW (hard to see how it wouldn't) then perhaps it's about time we came up with some gee whizz bang alternative to acoustics.
It makes sense to buy your own stuff if you can, to employ your own countrymen on expensive defence projects whenever possible also helps maintain a defence design and production capability - without which you are hostage to the overseas sales policies of other governments/power blocs.
Nimrod 2000, well it's only 16:52 right now so they've a couple of hours to get it finished.
It makes sense to buy your own stuff if you can, to employ your own countrymen on expensive defence projects whenever possible also helps maintain a defence design and production capability - without which you are hostage to the overseas sales policies of other governments/power blocs.
Nimrod 2000, well it's only 16:52 right now so they've a couple of hours to get it finished.
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Mogg,
no chance - it's a well known fact that should anyone on Pprune be proved wrong, and admit it, that the Universe will disappear so quickly that the Large Hadron Collider will look like a 1950 Sturmey Archer borne dynamo.
CS -
keep 120.
(That IS what you were suggesting, right?)
Why not go the whole hog - resurrect 203 Sqn, bin the rest, first to the bar in Luqa gets to be boss?
no chance - it's a well known fact that should anyone on Pprune be proved wrong, and admit it, that the Universe will disappear so quickly that the Large Hadron Collider will look like a 1950 Sturmey Archer borne dynamo.
CS -
keep 120.
(That IS what you were suggesting, right?)
Why not go the whole hog - resurrect 203 Sqn, bin the rest, first to the bar in Luqa gets to be boss?
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Roland I'm sure you are well aware that 1 Sqn RNAS (201 Sqn) Predates any RFC/RAF unit by a few years.
I would vote to keep 42(TB) Sqn given a choice,
and bin both 120 and 201
I would vote to keep 42(TB) Sqn given a choice,
and bin both 120 and 201
