Typhoon A2A kill
 

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? :8

‘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….

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

No shot sheer lock... eh?

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.

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



(* Other than RAF Phantom Vs Jag etc)

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

Mogwi might have an opinion on that.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

That is what I meant, yes.

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.

Kills a Kill……

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?