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A400M det to Coastal Command?

Old 11th Aug 2020, 18:26
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A400M det to Coastal Command?

Was that an Atlas I saw on the news yesterday flying over the Channel while Priti Patel was on a Border Force Cutter?

How is that supposed to help stop the migrant hordes...drop a horror box on them?!

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Old 11th Aug 2020, 18:49
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There are more suitable aircraft for doing that job.
Such as which, at such short notice?

What a waste of money and resources.
Let's see your figures.....
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Old 11th Aug 2020, 18:55
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Is Sentinel still around?
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The question is what is (any) aircraft going to do? Complete waste of time and effort imo.
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Old 11th Aug 2020, 20:34
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Originally Posted by Training Risky
Is Sentinel still around?
The idea was,I thought, to find a more capable platform.
Not, as difficult as it may be, a less capable platform than A400 in service; but you have done well with that task TR
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Originally Posted by Guernsey Girl II
The idea was,I thought, to find a more capable platform.
Not, as difficult as it may be, a less capable platform than A400 in service; but you have done well with that task TR
i am aware that it carries a G​​​​​​MTI...but can't it at least be of some use? And the SAR? At this rate we'll have to scrape all the concrete out of the Chain Home/ROTOR stn down the lane from where I grew up!
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Shadow R1 flying racetracks near Dover - Folkestone today.
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Old 11th Aug 2020, 23:13
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Do any of the fighters need target practice ?
An orange inflatable would seem to be a perfect target. Asking for a friend.
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Why wait for the dinghies to launch? These dinghies are being purchased locally in France. I suggest a secret raid on the sellers' warehouse. Place a tracker on them and wait for them to arrive at the coast. Then inform the Gendarmerie to go stop them!

If that is too difficult; said dinghy warehouses could have unfortunate firey accidents!

That should save some fuel and fatigue hours...
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Originally Posted by ExpectmorePayless
Do any of the fighters need target practice ?
An orange inflatable would seem to be a perfect target. Asking for a friend.
1+1 = 2 bellends.
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Would have thought that this would be suitable employment for the WATCHDOG brigade.
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Originally Posted by ExpectmorePayless
Do any of the fighters need target practice ?
An orange inflatable would seem to be a perfect target. Asking for a friend.
Oh just brilliant! That's it, with sites like this the subject of journalists looking for an incendiary quote you just go and recommend the cold blooded murder of innocent men, women and children.

Excellent. Award yourself a lollipop.

Total waste of space.
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"Coastal Command"? Civil Service Command, more like.
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"Coastal Command"? We haven't commanded our coast for many years.
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Originally Posted by ExpectmorePayless
Do any of the fighters need target practice ?
An orange inflatable would seem to be a perfect target. Asking for a friend.
There was a Typhoon doing countless wide circles high over Ramsgate/Margate area last Thursday.....
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There was a Typhoon doing countless wide circles high over Ramsgate/Margate area last Thursday.....
As hilarious as a sucking chest wound.
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Originally Posted by Training Risky
Was that an Atlas I saw on the news yesterday flying over the Channel while Priti Patel was on a Border Force Cutter?

How is that supposed to help stop the migrant hordes...drop a horror box on them?!
It wasn't trying to stop them.

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Old 12th Aug 2020, 11:18
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Originally Posted by Training Risky
Was that an Atlas I saw on the news yesterday flying over the Channel while Priti Patel was on a Border Force Cutter?

How is that supposed to help stop the migrant hordes...drop a horror box on them?!
Obviously THE Posiedon was U/S.
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Obviously THE Posiedon was U/S.
Whatever the TWO P-8's delivered so far were doing then, one of them is over the Strait today.
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