Navaleye,

It's a shame the British nation has bred such a bunch of cynics. The RAF was indeed prepared to 'expose their underwear'. The Typhoon has taken on the best machine anyone outside America can produce and has comprehensively redefined the standard required in the visual combat arena. Well done to everyone involved. Maybe this might herald a renewed enthusiasm and hold back the tide of cynicism that blights the efforts of so many involved in the Typhoon programme.

Didn't they give the USN a thrashing a couple of years ago?

You cannot be serious (best McEnroe accent!)
 

Surely the IAF wouldn't waste the dosh required to deploy all the way to the UK by mandating a noses cold policy........Surely you jest YellarGait???
I guess they'll never improve their BVR skills if they don't play against advanced nations!

Antipodean

What you have to remember is that this is defence diplomacy - not a proper exercise. So - I hear they are jolly nice chaps, lovely aeroplanes etc etc. But hey defence is all about diplomacy, its not just blowing stuff up/taking ground!

Possibly a difference between noses cold and noses not fully hot? Don't want to give away all your capabilities just in case - same as SHAR vs Mig 29 in Malaysia, or SHAR vs USA at Red Flag 03.

You guys.... have some of the best spotters in the world.

We've had Sukhois in service for ten years, but photos like the ones we're seeing now.... wow!

Link 1

Link 2 - Includes a lovely shot of a Tornado with reheat!

Link 3

Link 4

Link 5

Beautiful.

I'm no spotter, but that is one good looking aeroplane!!

It is well fit!!! Ayeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!

:D

Thanks BombayDuck!

The F.3 reheat is mine. I had to get the old Box Brownie up sharpish to catch that one! I took some more yesterday and today.

http://forums.airshows.co.uk/cgi-bin...ST;f=9;t=35040

Sweet pics, Teej! Thank you!

I was in Bangalore last week and was amused one evening sitting in the hotel bar to see some locals tucking into bowls of chips. Hard to keep a straight face remembering the sketch :ok: I suppose the ketchup made it a little less bland.
(The Windsor Sheraton is good but I prefer the Leela Palace. Pity my employers won't stump up for either this year :{)

Cold Noses, does that mean the Indians are using IRST's then?

Oh and one from me...

http://mysite.orange.co.uk/tonyosbor...rAJOsborne.jpg

Tony, yes - I have it confirmed that under certain conditions (mutually agreed on) the MKIs will be using the IRST in the exercises.

Nice pic!

edited to add: Hmmm, what is that on the port OB station, and why it not on starboard?

AA-8 or AA-11 without fins?

Probably so they can use it to get a seeker tone but not actually launch the thing?

Looks like the ACMI data pod, or whatever its called these days.

ah, suspected as much. Looks too thin to be a training Aphid/Archer. I guess the fly-by-wire take care of the weight imbalance, though that must be little...

And some even get arrested by our NATO allies as spies :)

Think it is just an acquisition round, because it appears to have a seeker...

RAF Press Release
What on earth is an SU30 Mk 1?? :ugh:

Anyway, well done to the MKI guys for a good det, despite the diplomatic constraints and the worst of British weather! :ok:

YG yer getting old
 

They were probably were using their LPI variant and you were down at top of climb as usual, just didnt spot it, bet you Neil B would have:8:8.:eek:
Charlie sends:8:8:8

Jeebus! Su-30Mk.1?! :rolleyes:

The earlier one was just the MK (some did call it Mk.1) but this one is definitely the Modernizirovannyi Kommercheskiy Indiski - *Multirole Commercial India* version. (China has the MKK (Kitei = China) and there is the MKM for Malaysia...)

Rapscallion - that's quite alright. Considering two Sundays ago Bombay got 400 mm of rain in one day, and that Pune (where the Rhinos are based) is just 80 kms south-east I doubt it was anything they weren't used to!

BTW, is "Flanker H" now the official NATO codename?