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Spruce,
I think the difference is that the Flight article said the Harrier detachment "could" be extended whereas the Telegraph article reported that the decision to extend it "had" been made. |
1. That is very boring. |
see here,
Now being carried by 9 Sqn-operated Panavia Tornado GR4 strike aircraft deployed to Al Udeid air base in Qatar, the Brimstone has recently been equipped with a dual-mode seeker (DMS) that offers a laser guidance mode in place of its original millimetre-wave radar sensor. The work has been conducted under an urgent operational requirement deal to support British and coalition activities in Iraq and Afghanistan. In addition to having a new precision guidance mode, the weapon's 50kg (110lb) launch weight will offer a low-collateral damage option to commanders in the battle against the Taliban. The Tornado GR4 force is also soon to receive Raytheon's 226kg Paveway IV laser/GPS-guided bomb, which entered use with UK Harriers in Afghanistan late last year. |
That is very boring. http://static.pprune.org/images/smilies/thumbs.gif Precisely why I'm no longer a Civil Engineer. |
Tourist, what do you know that the Torygraph doesn't then?
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Jobza, the answer would appear to be Yes and to your question, Nothing.
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Don't get me wrong, I would love it to be true, thus disproving the "bla bla bla.....carriers are never required, the RAF can deploy worldwide in hours to the ever available suitable airfields provided by host nation support whilst the carriers would take weeks to arrive............." bollocks that gets spouted on here regularly.
However, the real truth is that the Tornado is not currently able to match the capability of the Harrier at CAS, and won't be until 30 plus UORs are embodied, and even then, "with a bigger payload of bombs", I think not......:hmm: |
"Don't get me wrong, I would love it to be true, thus disproving the "bla bla bla.....carriers are never required, the RAF can deploy worldwide in hours to the ever available suitable airfields provided by host nation support whilst the carriers would take weeks to arrive............." bollocks that gets spouted on here regularly."
Or you could spin it another way and argue that as the RAF deployed various types in pretty quick time to ever available suitable airfields provided by host nation support in the current theatres that it may not be bollocks at all.....................just my humble thought :ok: |
.......and if you had required air defence?
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Could have sworn this was a thread about the delays with regards Tornado being deployed to somehwere warm and sandy............:bored:
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Blaaaa
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".......and if you had required air defence?"
:eek:Shar?:oh::E |
However, the real truth is that the Tornado is not currently able to match the capability of the Harrier at CAS, and won't be until 30 plus UORs are embodied, and even then, "with a bigger payload of bombs", I think not...... I think you're exaggerating a touch fella! Either that or a lot of people I know and work with are keeping an awful lot of work hidden from everybody else. I know who I trust. Gladrag nice link. I don't think you can describe those a/c as being deficient in pay load |
errr who gives a to$$ - one works (starts up and goes flying) and one does not..... simple as!
"Im sorry Mrs Smith, we couldn't prevent your son's death with much needed air support because we couldn't get it started" |
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