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Old 4th Apr 2016, 21:58
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Wattisham would be good. And has two HAS sites already!

One could be 56 SQN and the other 74 SQN..
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Old 4th Apr 2016, 22:13
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Smart money's on somewhere that already has FJ operating. I'd put one more into each of Lossie and Con, but that's a wag. North needs close range Red Air and so does the South. Sticking them at Leeming doesn't really help either, especially when you may not be able to rely upon a tanker to extend. For me the support already there at both LOS and CGY makes it a no-brainer, regardless of the T2 and T3 uncommonalities.

Sqn numberplates will be interesting. I'd imagine they'd come from one of the following: 111(F), 43(F), 19(F), 25(F), IX(B), 31 and 12(B).

Great to know there'll be a decent aggressor for the Typhoons and Lightnings of the future though.
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Old 4th Apr 2016, 22:28
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Didn't the Defence Secretary say at the Scottish Conservative Spring Conference the other week that they are putting one at Lossie anyway.

As for Coningsby.... It managed with 3 Sqns and the PhantomOCU before they built any HAS sites
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Old 4th Apr 2016, 22:43
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How about Mildenhall? Yanks are leaving it.
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Old 5th Apr 2016, 00:06
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Originally Posted by Davef68
Put the T1s* at Lossie...
* Tranche 1, not the tandem ones!
The tandem ones are all T.3's now, Dave, no T.1's left in service...

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Old 5th Apr 2016, 10:32
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Easy basing answer, move one Sqn of the Tranche 2/3 jets to Cyprus and one to the Falkland Islands and the Tranche 1s fill in the space left in Lossie and Connnnnnningsby. The new bases give a more desirable and not so desirable location to reward and chastise personnel as appropriate, and reduce strain on existing UK Sqns deploying all the time (especially as Airshow season is soon here ).

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Old 7th Apr 2016, 02:03
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The basing decision has been made and the Typhoons have been deployed. The air crews were given the final say and it was determined that the UK/Commonwealth asset most deserving of Typhoon air defense assets was the Gosling's Rum distillery in Bermuda. As one junior officer noted, "one never knows when the Yanks will go bat-chit crazy and we must be prepared for anything".
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Old 7th Apr 2016, 10:12
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You could probably safely put money on no new or reopened bases and no commitment to anything north of the border until threats of Brexit/second Scottish referenda are passed.
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Old 7th Apr 2016, 11:56
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Courtney Mil,

While that is undoubtedly the logical thing to do, it didn't stop them announcing that the new P-8 fleet is to be based at Lossiemouth and that Lossiemouth will also be the base of at least one additional Typhoon squadron.
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Old 7th Apr 2016, 12:07
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My money would be on Lossie and /or Coningsby to get the T1 Typhoons with no further bases becoming involved (mostly due to financial pressures). Would not surprise me if P8 was eventually sent to Waddington with the US EC135's mooted to be going to Waddington, transferring to Fairford once Mildenhall closes.
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Old 7th Apr 2016, 15:56
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CM, Great point. Of course there's always a school of thoght to say put more into Scotland to make the consequences of Scottish independence less palatable when resources are removed afterwards.
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You are quite right,but the trouble with people like the SNP leadership, as it generally goes, is they'd argue that all assets north of the border, whatever the imbalance, are rightfully their allotted portion of HM Forces. Strategy in deployment of HM Forces to defend all UK interests seems to be too complicated beyond the one for you one and one for you argument. Alex Salmond and Angus Robertson have already tried to make the case that Scotland is deprived of a sufficient naval force to guard its shores because no Frigates and Destroyers
are either based in Scotland or are to be seen patrolling from the shore regularly.

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Old 8th Apr 2016, 06:26
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You could probably safely put money on no new or reopened bases and no commitment to anything north of the border until threats of Brexit/second Scottish referenda are passed.
While that is undoubtedly the logical thing to do,
CM, Great point. Of course there's always a school of thoght to say put more into Scotland to make the consequences of Scottish independence less palatable when resources are removed afterwards.
You are quite right,but the trouble with people like the SNP leadership, as it generally goes, is they'd argue that all assets north of the border, whatever the imbalance, are rightfully their allotted portion of HM Forces.
Er, you guys know it's not the English Royal Air Force, right?
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Old 8th Apr 2016, 10:49
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Well I will be surprised if they go anywhere else other than Coningsby and Lossiemouth.

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Old 8th Apr 2016, 11:04
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Mel, a separate Scotland would no longer be part of the "United" Kingdom. We all did this one over and over last time right?

It is the "UK" Ministry of Defence.

Clearly there would have to be shared defence responsibilities as our collective homeland protection as an island nation would trump political spats.
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melwothtw,

That is certainly the common perception and not just among English people either, Scots folks, indeed especially in the SNP are more than happy to believe the complete nonsense that any military presence north of the border, not sporting a Kilt and Tam o' Shanter or Glengarry, is part of an English Conservative Force of Occupation, and quite despairingly regard themselves as proudly holding more in common with the folk of Iraq rather than being citizens of the UK and therefore directly served by HM Forces, wherever they originate from, be it; England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland or anywhere else across the Globe for that matter.

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Old 8th Apr 2016, 11:40
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"our collective homeland protection as an island nation would trump political spats"

ho ho ho.............. the Nats could ask for NATO protection - dont see why it would be our problem.....................
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Old 8th Apr 2016, 12:07
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Mel, a separate Scotland would no longer be part of the "United" Kingdom. We all did this one over and over last time right?
Quite MSOCS, but until such a separation happens it is still very much part of the United Kingdom (indeed, the 'United Kingdom' doesn't exist without it), and so any suggestions to not base assets or personnel north of the border would not only be illegal, I'd suggest, but also highly counter productive for those wishing to preserve the Union. Ironic that.
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Old 8th Apr 2016, 13:11
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Valiantone,

It would make sense for a lot of reasons - the question remains is there enough room at either base.
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Old 8th Apr 2016, 13:13
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Quite, Mel. I support putting more there. That's why I also raised the point that putting more there would bolster the argument to remain as a Union.

We all know that politics will find other, legal, reasons to not base more assets North of the border if they want. Even if the real reason is in anticipation of renewed separatism. Machiavelli has always been with us!
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