Typhoon A2A kill

[downsizer]

Well a drone anyway with an ASRAAM. As long as there is a drone kill mark on a frame I'm happy....

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/r...drone-in-syria

[Lima Juliet]

Originally Posted by downsizer

Well a drone anyway with an ASRAAM. As long as there is a drone kill mark on a frame I'm happy....

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/r...drone-in-syria

If so, can a few us claim the Jindiviks in Cardigan Bay?

[Evalu8ter]

‘As long as there is a drone kill mark on a frame I'm happy....’ - well, as they festoon themselves with badges for a bit of formation flying with a Russian jet, I can barely conceive of the corporate joy and collective back slapping shooting down something other than a Jindi or a Jag will cause. DFCs and special Xmas video from CAS and CASWO inbound no doubt….

[Ninthace]

Not the first time a Typhoon has allegedly killed a drone
https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peo...a1993142.shtml
No missiles used either!

[treadigraph]

No shot sheer lock... eh?

[Cat Techie]

Originally Posted by Ninthace

Not the first time a Typhoon has killed a drone
https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peo...a1993142.shtml
No missiles used either!

Well the missile would have been life ex sometime for the later Typhoon / Drone killing. Overkill if a canon could have done it mind with the facet of time not considered.

[The Helpful Stacker]

Is this not the first RAF air-to-air kill since WW2*?



(* Other than RAF Phantom Vs Jag etc)

[Cat Techie]

Originally Posted by Evalu8ter

‘As long as there is a drone kill mark on a frame I'm happy....’ - well, as they festoon themselves with badges for a bit of formation flying with a Russian jet, I can barely conceive of the corporate joy and collective back slapping shooting down something other than a Jindi or a Jag will cause. DFCs and special Xmas video from CAS and CASWO inbound no doubt….

Damm, that is tea sprayed over the shift diary and the seat 3A recline cable I have to fit later!

[Beamr]

Originally Posted by The Helpful Stacker

Is this not the first RAF air-to-air kill since WW2*?



(* Other than RAF Phantom Vs Jag etc)

Mogwi might have an opinion on that.

[Cat Techie]

Originally Posted by The Helpful Stacker

Is this not the first RAF air-to-air kill since WW2*?



(* Other than RAF Phantom Vs Jag etc)

Sure Korea saw some RAF pilots flying with USAF F-86s and had some combat kills. Someone whom lurks on here did some major aircraft deconstruction when flying a SHAR as mentioned by the last post. But for a RAF aircraft destroying enemy aircraft in the air, you could be right. Buccaneer destroyed an Antonov, but that was on the ground at the time.

[Tashengurt]

Originally Posted by The Helpful Stacker

Is this not the first RAF air-to-air kill since WW2*?



(* Other than RAF Phantom Vs Jag etc)

Lightning Vs C130? Allegedly.

[MAINJAFAD]

Originally Posted by Tashengurt

Lightning Vs C130? Allegedly.

Last confirmed RAF kill on an airborne manned aircraft in combat was in 1948. Egyptian Spitfire if memory serves. The alleged C-130 kill in the Confrontation was by a Javelin, unless your thinking of the C-130 stolen from Mildenhall in the late 1960's.

[xray one]

It's a bit like clubbing a baby seal...

[air pig]

As somebody above said, Mogwi may have a thought about that.

[air pig]

Please Lord, don't let the pilot be from the FAA otherwise the 'bearded one' will never let us forget it.

[kintyred]

Originally Posted by xray one

It's a bit like clubbing a baby seal...

That’s the funniest thing I’ve read in ages!

[Tashengurt]

Originally Posted by MAINJAFAD

Last confirmed RAF kill on an airborne manned aircraft in combat was in 1948. Egyptian Spitfire if memory serves. The alleged C-130 kill in the Confrontation was by a Javelin, unless your thinking of the C-130 stolen from Mildenhall in the late 1960's.

That is what I meant, yes.

[cynicalint]

Originally Posted by The Helpful Stacker

Is this not the first RAF air-to-air kill since WW2*?

Less time gap than the last Cavalry Regiment led a horse-ridden attack!

or when last did an RN surface ship sink an enemy ship?

I think all three services have accomplished more than the popular images, cavalry charges, ship sinkings or air-to-air kills.

When did the RAF last conduct an airborne bombing attack?, a maritime patrol, an airborne evacuation or an airborne re-supply?
Much more to air operations than shooting down fighters. Lets get off that hobby horse shall we?
The ability to deter is better than the ability to kill.

[norfolkungood]

Kills a Kill……

[Cat Techie]

Originally Posted by Tashengurt

Lightning Vs C130? Allegedly.

Blue on Blue ? Back to the Jag again. Or am I confusing an Indonisian kite with the lovesick USAF Sgt thinking he was a rampie with a Q400?