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Working Together
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Nice to see our boys working together under difficult circumstances. U.S. special forces did something similar to this a couple years ago over there riding outside of Cobra gunships to get a quick lift to the top of a mountain.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jh ... che122.xml
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jh ... che122.xml
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- VulcanDriver
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Yep, but what's worrying is that British Army will not have an equivalent to the Blackhwak for a long while according to UK press reports. Why Westland could not build the Blackhawk under licence like they have the Apache is mystery!
John
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"That is the biggest fool thing we have ever done. The A-bomb will never go off, and I speak as an expert in explosives." - Admiral William Leahy
Politics my friend, politics......
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- VulcanDriver
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I have to agree... When the RAF were looking for a long range interceptor the first choice was the F-14 (IIRC) for the simple reason is we have to cover the North Sea, which was the route Soviet bombers would take. Not so dis-similar to a F-14 protecting its carrier.
But we couldn't afford it so we ended up with the Tornado F3 which is a dog as a fighter. Great low-level bomber though...
Now we have the Typhoon, a fighter equal to anything flying today. Even if its years late...
Cynical moi?
John
But we couldn't afford it so we ended up with the Tornado F3 which is a dog as a fighter. Great low-level bomber though...
Now we have the Typhoon, a fighter equal to anything flying today. Even if its years late...
Cynical moi?
John
John
"That is the biggest fool thing we have ever done. The A-bomb will never go off, and I speak as an expert in explosives." - Admiral William Leahy
"That is the biggest fool thing we have ever done. The A-bomb will never go off, and I speak as an expert in explosives." - Admiral William Leahy
It was the RAF's greatest hope, but they knew that we wouldn't be able to afford them we actually test flew the F-15 though, the pilot that did was on my sqn. The RAF wanted two-seaters.VulcanDriver wrote:I have to agree... When the RAF were looking for a long range interceptor the first choice was the F-14 (IIRC) for the simple reason is we have to cover the North Sea, which was the route Soviet bombers would take. Not so dis-similar to a F-14 protecting its carrier.
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- VulcanDriver
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Was that Dan Griffiths? He was a RAF test pilot I knew and he said flew the F-15. He's now at Airbus.Firebird wrote:It was the RAF's greatest hope, but they knew that we wouldn't be able to afford them we actually test flew the F-15 though, the pilot that did was on my sqn. The RAF wanted two-seaters.VulcanDriver wrote:I have to agree... When the RAF were looking for a long range interceptor the first choice was the F-14 (IIRC) for the simple reason is we have to cover the North Sea, which was the route Soviet bombers would take. Not so dis-similar to a F-14 protecting its carrier.
John
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"That is the biggest fool thing we have ever done. The A-bomb will never go off, and I speak as an expert in explosives." - Admiral William Leahy
"That is the biggest fool thing we have ever done. The A-bomb will never go off, and I speak as an expert in explosives." - Admiral William Leahy
Nope this one flew a well publicized flight across the Atlantic in a specially painted FGR2 . Although, that is not to say that Dan wasn't involved in the trial as well, I only know about one person.VulcanDriver wrote: Was that Dan Griffiths? He was a RAF test pilot I knew and he said flew the F-15. He's now at Airbus.
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- CelticWarrior
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And fine looking Apaches they are , I'm reffering to a seperate, but very similar incident that took place a couple years back that was shown as part of a TV documentary called "Task Force Red Dog". In that event two US Marine AH-1 Cobras lifted US special forces soldiers up and out of a valley floor to the top of a mountain to cut off enemy combatants that they were pursuing at the time. At the time that was thought to be the first time it had ever been tried. Good to see that it worked well again.Garysb wrote:Mike
Them Cobras are Apaches
Gary
Sorry Celtic for the repost.
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