Air Defence Typhoons
 

Two squadrons of Tranche 1's
RAF to field retained Tranche 1 Typhoons as stand-alone air defence force | IHS Jane's 360

Seems sensible.

Doesn't it just!

The RAF must have taken a common sense pill that day

UK RAF shows interest in Voyager boom | IHS Jane's 360

Maybe if they stopped spending money faffing about converting/de-converting Voyagers for the civil charter market, the money might be available......

As always, would like to hear from the professionals whether :hmm:or not this is a simplistic viewpoint.

Well, at least they didn't write "Conningsby" - always amazed how even people who have been posted there spell it that way. :8

A thread with good news? On Proon? And received as good news? I'm having a lie down. ;)

Who does pay for that - is it the MoD, AirTanker, or the civil operator?

Yet to be decided where they will be based, but they want to be in one location with other Typhoons? Perfect. Use more of Lossie for Typhoons and put the P8s next door in Kinloss which has facilities built to operate an aircraft of that ilk.

If politically expedient, it can be a P8 satellite of Lossie, leaving "Kinloss Barracks" intact. Otherwise, RAF Kinloss makes a bold return.

Surely co-located with 100 Sqn at RAF Leeming would be the preferred location?

Which would be a popular choice for a posting, I would have thought.

In which case, forget Leeming - somewhere up in Jockistan, probably...:uhoh:

If Southern Q can be credibly mounted from there, you may be onto something with RAF Nearmemamlake BEags!

Put the T1s* at Lossie and put the multirole aircraft somewhere down south (Where do we have space for two/three squadrons of fast jets beyond Leeming? Honnington? Wittering? Scampton?)

Or re-take Leuchars.....

* Tranche 1, not the tandem ones!

More importantly, where are they going to find 2 Sqn's worth of Typhoon aircrew???

Perhaps someone's heard there are VGS pilots looking for a cockpit....

...and that wins the internet today :ok::ok::ok:

It ain't about knowing how to spell it, it is being able to tell the time from a clock with only 1 hand!

Leon,
Here's a radical thought.



Why not make lot's of the Pilots currently in ground jobs, actually fly for a living.

Not all of them of course, just those still on flying pay but not actually flying every week.

That'll resolve the manpower shortage.

Leeming sounds good, apart from the noise issue. So does Wattisham and Coltishall, or is Colt covered with a prison now?

Can we reliably predict which squadrons will be stood up or does it depend on people picking favourites?

Airsound

That's so radical that I do hope that's a joke? :eek:

LJ

Brize must be very quiet (noise wise) since the retirement of the Vickers Funbus ;-)

Plenty of room for some HAS to be built on the southside.