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RAF intercept Russian plane over Kent, explosion heard

https://www.facebook.com/royalairforce/posts/10152837301044885

RAF Typhoon aircraft were launched from RAF Coningsby this afternoon to intercept a civilian aircraft that was causing concern to civil air traffic control. The aircraft was escorted safey to Stansted. During the operation, the aircraft were cleared to travel at supersonic speed - we apologise for any inconvenience or concern this may have caused.
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So plane was heading for London but incommunicado, jets scrambled and escorted it to Stansted. It's a Latvian military cargo plane. All a bit wtf :hmm:
 
disgusted to see Crabs apologising for creating a sonic boom while chasing errant aircraft.

do rozzers or the Fire Brigade apologise for their blue lights? did the Royal Artillery anti-aircraft batteries apologise to Londoners for all the anti-social noise they made while filling sky with 3.7inch shells to provide the Luftwaffe with a warm welcome?

one imagines disgusted of Tunbridge Wells would whinge like shit if the RAF had chosen not to turn up... NIMBY cunts.
 
twentythreedom said:
Sky News were playing recording of RAF pilot's radio warning to plane that they would shoot if orders not followed - and you could tell he meant it :eek:

http://news.sky.com/story/1362888/raf-jets-escort-cargo-plane-to-stansted
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good to see Sky's defence correspondant earning their money.

caption says 'two Typhoons were scrambled'. picture shows a 30 year old Tornado bomber taking off in the desert.... i suppose i could see how confusing it must be - both aircraft are grey...

second picture/video 'the RAF response in detail' shows a USAF F-22. an aircraft the RAF has never and will never fly, and one that looks nothing like anything the RAF flies.
 
kebabking said:
good to see Sky's defence correspondant earning their money.

caption says 'two Typhoons were scrambled'. picture shows a 30 year old Tornado bomber taking off in the desert.... i suppose i could see how confusing it must be - both aircraft are grey...

second picture/video 'the RAF response in detail' shows a USAF F-22. an aircraft the RAF has never and will never fly, and one that looks nothing like anything the RAF flies.
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Indeed, but then they have always been useless - them claiming that a helicopter striking a crane in epically thick fog over Vauxhall one morning might be terrorist-related, on the sole basis that the crane was a couple hundred of metres away from MI6, being one of their better ones.
 
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