Eurofighter Deploying with Streamers on Missiles?!
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Eurofighter Deploying with Streamers on Missiles?!
BBC News - Libya conflict: RAF Typhoon jets take off for first mission
Do my eyes deceive me or are there streamers hanging off the missiles? Why would it deploy with them? Seems wrong to me...
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Do my eyes deceive me or are there streamers hanging off the missiles? Why would it deploy with them? Seems wrong to me...
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I noticed that as well so thanks for posting this.
Re "adopting the American practice of Last chance checks including ordanance pin removal just prior to take off?"
So the pins are taken out at the end of the runway ?
Is this something particular to the Typhoon or that airfield as the Tornado from the UK on the first nights footage didn't appear to be in the same state at taxiing ?
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Re "adopting the American practice of Last chance checks including ordanance pin removal just prior to take off?"
So the pins are taken out at the end of the runway ?
Is this something particular to the Typhoon or that airfield as the Tornado from the UK on the first nights footage didn't appear to be in the same state at taxiing ?
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You have to adopt the procedures of the base from which you operate. US bases use last chance checks. Itailian bases didn't use that procedure in my time but I guess those more current can comment.
You have to adopt the procedures of the base from which you operate. US bases use last chance checks. Itailian bases didn't use that procedure in my time but I guess those more current can comment.
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Maybe they are adopting the American practice of Last chance checks including ordanance pin removal just prior to take off?
Not sure about Italian rules but at Nellis (and elsewhere in the US) we didn't do 'Last Chance' pin removal checks. The GR1/4 has a different (read safer) Stores Management System and so they are not required whilst taxiing. I can't speak for the Typhoon however. Perhaps they do.
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Let's remember this was they're first combat mission, perhaps the streamers were party-wear, or maybe to wean the pilots off smoke pods and air show stunting...???
Only kidding, great work all and congratulations on the achievement, I'm sure it'll be a great success and we'll see you all home safe soon!
Only kidding, great work all and congratulations on the achievement, I'm sure it'll be a great success and we'll see you all home safe soon!
Flare dispenser pins? Sometimes withdrawn at the end of the line or on exiting the HAS complex so nothing unusual there.
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Flare dispenser pins? Sometimes withdrawn at the end of the line or on exiting the HAS complex so nothing unusual there.
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