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Coincidentally , there was another mission yesterday , down the west coast of Ireland then back again involving QRA a/c with tanker support . No trip up the channel this time though !
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On the previous flight, reportedly down the Channel, wouldn't they have run out of "International Airspace" (ie not sovereign-owned) over the Straits of Dover (or anywhere else within 12nm of the coastline) and therefore entered UK or French airspace ?
Re leather helmets and gloves, zetec - they go nicely with 55 year old airframes. In this country we p**s our defence budget away scrapping perfectly good kit and spending a fortune replacing it with something newer and not necessarily better. My old Mk1a helmet with a cloth inner was much more comfy than any of the later one-piece jobs from Mk II onwards, although it probably didnt look quite as "cool".
Re the Bear, I can think of a dozen or more types we introduced after the Soviets brought in the Tu95 which are now nothing but a distant memory, but the Russians are still getting sterling service out of them. There's a certain irony in scrambling Typhoons to deal with something that looks like it has come from a vintage air display - I bet the Russian crews love it!
Re the Bear, I can think of a dozen or more types we introduced after the Soviets brought in the Tu95 which are now nothing but a distant memory, but the Russians are still getting sterling service out of them. There's a certain irony in scrambling Typhoons to deal with something that looks like it has come from a vintage air display - I bet the Russian crews love it!
Tankertrashnav, Downsizer,
Those Tu-95MS Bear H are new-build based on the Tu-142M. Production run from the 1980s to the early 1990s. All the old Russian Air Force Tu-95 variants have long since been retired.
Meanwhile the USAF are pulling 1961 registration B-52s out of the boneyard.
From Boneyard to Barksdale, a mothballed B-52 Stratofortress flies again.
Those Tu-95MS Bear H are new-build based on the Tu-142M. Production run from the 1980s to the early 1990s. All the old Russian Air Force Tu-95 variants have long since been retired.
Meanwhile the USAF are pulling 1961 registration B-52s out of the boneyard.
From Boneyard to Barksdale, a mothballed B-52 Stratofortress flies again.
From RTÉ, 19th Feb 2015
Russian aircraft flew within Irish airspace - RTÉ News
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The Irish Aviation Authority has confirmed that two Russian military aircraft flew within Irish-controlled airspace yesterday. In a statement the IAA said the aircraft operated within 25 nautical miles of the Irish coast.
Russian aircraft flew within Irish airspace - RTÉ News
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Today's the day the teddy-bears play !
Perhaps they are logging the airframe numbers of the Tornados/Typhoons, to see how many servicable ones we've got on inventory !
Whatsalizad,
Thanks ! So the poor devils have to fly 12-hr plus by hand - and the thing doesn't seem to be all that stable, judging by the way they were having to juggle the yoke !
jetslut,
Probably to ramp-up anti-German sentiment at home. They don't like the Germans * very much (with good reason !)
Note *: I believe they called them немцы "nyemtsi" - "the dumb ones" (because they couldn't speak Russian).
D.
Whatsalizad,
Thanks ! So the poor devils have to fly 12-hr plus by hand - and the thing doesn't seem to be all that stable, judging by the way they were having to juggle the yoke !
jetslut,
Probably to ramp-up anti-German sentiment at home. They don't like the Germans * very much (with good reason !)
Note *: I believe they called them немцы "nyemtsi" - "the dumb ones" (because they couldn't speak Russian).
D.
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Of course, with all the AD assets [air and ground] deployed down the East coast, what better way to annoy UK than flying down the West coast?
The ripple effect could be deployment of mobile ADGE assets to the south-west [where we used to have them, once] and establishing a permanent AD presence/QRA at one of our western operational airfields ... at which point one gives up
Strategy, anyone?
The ripple effect could be deployment of mobile ADGE assets to the south-west [where we used to have them, once] and establishing a permanent AD presence/QRA at one of our western operational airfields ... at which point one gives up
Strategy, anyone?
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vid looks for all intents to be a STEAMPUNK (look it up!!) B29 flightdeck.....or may I venture a tupelev tu4 deck.
maybe its just me but I find the bears to curiously good looking....in a PHANTOM sort of way.
FISH.
maybe its just me but I find the bears to curiously good looking....in a PHANTOM sort of way.
FISH.
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On the previous flight, reportedly down the Channel, wouldn't they have run out of "International Airspace" (ie not sovereign-owned) over the Straits of Dover (or anywhere else within 12nm of the coastline) and therefore entered UK or French airspace ?
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This is all a bit 1985'ish isn't it? Good entertainment, but the consensus seems to be that the world has moved on - just need to tell the Ruskies that!
Otherwise we'll be re-opening Binbrook and (RAF) Wattisham. Maybe bring those Lightning's back from SA to bolster defences.
Otherwise we'll be re-opening Binbrook and (RAF) Wattisham. Maybe bring those Lightning's back from SA to bolster defences.
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When I used to watch these intercept vids on TV I used to worry that the RAF didn't have enough aircraft to man a high quality QRA fleet and that if the Russians sent over something like 20 bears in 10 flights of 2 we would be scuppered.
Luckily David Cameron was on the TV news tonight, and he assured us that these probing flights just go to prove that the RAF have the pilots and aircraft to deal with the Russians and it's no big deal
Luckily David Cameron was on the TV news tonight, and he assured us that these probing flights just go to prove that the RAF have the pilots and aircraft to deal with the Russians and it's no big deal
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I hope they keep doing it until they screw up their nav or something, and embarrass the party in power to deliver the nation the air defence assets it's deserves.
Keep em coming Ivan
Keep em coming Ivan
