weltweit
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Why don't you start that thread?
Russian Long Range Bombers disrupt UK airspace
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This is my position,attack on North Korea?Russian border,attack on Iran again Russian border.I sincerely hope I'm fried in the first attack I'm not looking forward until some dick figures radio 4 has been off the air for 24hours before attacking Russia which will result in incineration all round.MAD? indeed it fucking is.
kebabking
Not a Girly Swot, but I like them....
unlikely. our intercepting fighters might see them and might react rather badly to seeing them, and secondly because weapons have a negative effect on range and speed, and this was a looooonnnnng trip... over the north cape of Norway, out west of Ireland, then into the English Channel as far as Bournemouth-Cherbourg - and then the same route all the way back via the same route.
its possible of course, the types of missile they carry - nuclear or conventional - can be housed in the bomb bay as well as on external hardpoints. its been reported, but not confirmed, that as well as the two BEAR H, the sortie included two MIG-31 FOXHOUND long range fighters and two IL-76 MIDAS tankers. i wouldn't be surprised if the FOXHOUND's were armed, the RAF Typhoons certainly were...
DownwardDog
Riding a Brompton with a power meter.
DownwardDog
Riding a Brompton with a power meter.
On paper, possibly. In reality, almost certainly not, as they would rather hoarde/sell the fuel saved by not actually carrying them.
gosub
~#
736 NAS. The film will be set in Culdrose rather than Miramar.
Some of my Dad's squadron went to Miramar, my Dad was too PTSD, 2 tours of Sea Vixens and he didn't want to push his luck any more
DownwardDog
Riding a Brompton with a power meter.
I used to live near RAF Binbrook. It was fantastic, and noisy, when they scrambled these to intercept the Russians:
I once saw a 9 ship formation go up. Nice!
My father's cousin bought one, and two cockpit sections, when they were taken out of service. Even Jeremy Clarkson only has one.
I spent the summer of '86 at Binbrook doing shit clerical work for 5(AC) when I was an RAF sponsored student. They did give me a ride (and 5 minutes stick time!) in a T5 though. I recall being perturbed at the extended alchemy required to start the engines and get even a modest proportion of the avionics working. If it came to an invasion the "serp i molot" would have been flying over Piccadilly Circus by the time they got a 4 ship airborne. I imagine it would be bureaucratically unthinkable to put a student (I wasn't even commissioned at the time) at the controls of an EF Typhoon today!
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2hats
Dust.
SaskiaJayne
Rural Guerrilla
Cold War strategic nuclear bomber porn..Convair B-58 Hustler ftw..
TheHoodedClaw
acknowledging ur soup leg
The pants-on-head mad XB-70 Valkyrie
likesfish
You can't park here sir
coley
Well-Known Member
Or, nice fat juicy target.
Great looking aeroplanes though.
stuff_it
Too skool for cool
Well they'd certainly not want the Russians to invade, with their GTA view of modern capitalism....and look what I spotted in the New Year Day's parade just outside the IoD...
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
yeh they don't want the competition
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
Cold War strategic nuclear bomber porn..Convair B-58 Hustler ftw..
It's long been established that the cold war's coolest nuclear bomber was the Vulcan.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
yeh by people with no taste. there's 1970s pubs with better colour schemes than that.It's long been established that the cold war's coolest nuclear bomber was the Vulcan.
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
Loud in every way.
I very nearly soiled myself when one of those fuckers flew over the 1968 Biggin Hill Airshow...mind you, I was ever so tiny then.
gosub
~#
Blame Lee Harvey Oswald, v bombers were white til Gary Powers got shot down
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
the auld f-111 looked better than the vulcan
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
coley
Well-Known Member
They used to fly over my school ( infants) but they were pure white.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
in my picture they look like flying flasher's macs.Very fast V shaped clouds, the RAF was good at camouflage in them days
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
the auld f-111 looked better than the vulcan
Pah, boring. Looks like any number of other planes.
The Vulcan's where it's at.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
2hats
Dust.
Good thermal flash protection for when someone unzips the can of instant sunshine.
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