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CSG21
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Boac » Fri Jul 30, 2021 10:53 am
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For those interested in the journey of the Carrier Strike Group (sorry about the 'offensive' words, there, UP), this appears to be the constitution...
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The definition is 12 nautical miles (22.224km) from the Lowest Astronomical Tide line of any land or island or islet or shoal which protrudes above...
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Last post by Undried Plum
Sat Jul 31, 2021 7:21 pm
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Not with a bang, but a whimper...
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TheGreenGoblin » Tue Jul 06, 2021 1:14 pm
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Like heretics in the night... I feel extremely sorry for the Aghan commander and I wouldn't put much money on Bagram not falling very soon to the...
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Get the strategy wrong, and everything else will be wrong too.
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Last post by AtomKraft
Sun Jul 11, 2021 11:05 am
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Batman11 - Typhoon.....
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CharlieOneSix » Sun Jul 04, 2021 7:51 am
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Interesting......on FR24 just now..
EDIT: looks as though he's on approach to Odessa.....and his ADS-B data has disappeared ...
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Local Air Force used (still use?) to deactivate the ADS-B data until in some attitude and just before landing - I could still other aircraft landing...
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Last post by Rwy in Sight
Sun Jul 04, 2021 7:20 pm
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Cometh the hour, cometh the tanker.
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TheGreenGoblin » Tue Jun 08, 2021 9:37 am
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Noted in the Daily Fail...
US Navy makes history as unmanned tanker drone refuels a fighter jet for the first time
The Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet...
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The Trinidad incident appears to be a slow-running torpedo, such that the ship doing zig zags ended up crossing in front of the torpedo.
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Last post by llondel
Thu Jun 10, 2021 12:22 am
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RAF Scampton is to be sold by the MOD.
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TheGreenGoblin » Sat Jun 05, 2021 10:50 am
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The home of the Royal Air Force Aerobatics Team (RAFAT) The Red Arrows is to be put up for sale by the end of next year the Ministry of Defence (MoD)...
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I wonder if OC Base Support at Waddo will appointment a Grave Officer whose job is to maintain it. White posts, white rope, painted stones, weed free...
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Last post by Ex-Ascot
Mon Jun 07, 2021 12:19 pm
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The Israeli 'Iron Dome'
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EA01 » Wed May 12, 2021 12:23 am
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Looks to be doing what it says on the tin...
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I visited Jerusalem a few years ago and was startled at the huge scale of the wall. I remarked at the time that all they needed to finish the job was...
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Last post by AtomKraft
Wed May 26, 2021 7:35 am
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Last post by fareastdriver
Tue May 18, 2021 7:07 pm
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Boris Force One
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4mastacker » Wed Jun 17, 2020 9:37 am
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There are reports circulating that a Voyager aircraft currently undergoing pre-planned work at Cambridge is going to emerge with a nice red, white...
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Refueling from Boris Force One. Yep the enemy will not spot that.
Makes Britain look ridiculous. I am ashamed and sorry for the poor pilots who...
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Last post by TheGreenGoblin
Tue May 18, 2021 1:11 pm
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Cyber attack shuts down US fuel pipeline
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TheGreenGoblin » Mon May 10, 2021 3:15 pm
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Top US fuel pipeline operator Colonial Pipeline shut its entire network, the source of nearly half of the US East Coast’s fuel supply, after a cyber...
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The comments in this article are worth reading
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Last post by ricardian
Mon May 17, 2021 10:42 am
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KC-135 for the chop?
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TheGreenGoblin » Mon May 10, 2021 11:59 am
I post this article in toto as not everybody will want to subscribe to the journal.
In a long-running drama, the U.S. Air Force and Congress have...
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Last post by TheGreenGoblin
Mon May 10, 2021 11:59 am
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Last post by Ex-Ascot
Wed May 05, 2021 8:28 am
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Why do you need submarines?
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Pontius Navigator » Fri Apr 23, 2021 12:15 pm
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In wartime, like 80 years ago, submarines were useful for sinking enemy ships.
Today they are useful (?) for hiding missiles, tracking someone else's...
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Maybe of interest?
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Last post by Boac
Fri Apr 30, 2021 12:31 pm
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Canadian Snowbirds Aircraft Carson in BC
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Dushan » Sun May 17, 2020 10:15 pm
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One of Canadian Snowbirds planes crashed imediately after takeoff. Possible bird strike. Pilot and occupant both ejected, but appears that the pilot...
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Sad for all concerned and one hopes that the Snowbirds come back stronger and better than ever...
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Last post by TheGreenGoblin
Tue Apr 13, 2021 4:51 pm
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GPS - EW targetting
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ricardian » Sun Apr 11, 2021 9:26 pm
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Electronic warfare efforts targeted the GPS systems of RAF A400M Atlas C1 transport aircraft departing RAF Akrotiri, Cyprus, while troops were on...
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Thanks PN, I thought I might need to find out the correct spelling for doolally.
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Last post by k3k3
Mon Apr 12, 2021 1:24 pm
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Fixed wing/helo "fraternisation" today....
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CharlieOneSix » Thu Mar 18, 2021 1:24 pm
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Just noticed some two pairs of helicopter/fixed wing fraternisations on Flightradar 24 going on around Shrewsbury and Much Wenlock. One helo ZM523 is...
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Aha! - 'tis possibly this kind of activity....
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Last post by CharlieOneSix
Thu Mar 18, 2021 1:41 pm
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Farewell Fat Albert?
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ricardian » Sat Feb 27, 2021 8:12 pm
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From the Daily Mail, Saturday 27th Feb 2021:
The entire fleet of the transporter plane favoured by the SAS is to be grounded – despite fears the...
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I only had one trip on a C-130 and that was a jolly on an RAF one as a civvie. A cameraman and I had been doing all the helicopter filming for...
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Last post by CharlieOneSix
Tue Mar 02, 2021 6:23 pm
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RNAS Culdrose to have new digital control tower
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FD2 » Fri Feb 26, 2021 10:09 pm
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Looks interesting - hope they have adequate back up power! The photo is an example of how it could look before the accountants have their say and it...
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FD2 - I’d forgotten the coincidence with George and your ditching. Colin Larcombe was on the same squadron as me and became a good friend in Bristow....
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Last post by CharlieOneSix
Sat Feb 27, 2021 9:30 pm
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Low Flying in France
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FD2 » Thu Feb 18, 2021 7:46 pm
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'Forced him to land safely'
French military jets cut off village's power supply by flying low
Two French military planes that flew very close...
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Entertaining scuttlebutt!
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Last post by G-CPTN
Sat Feb 20, 2021 8:04 pm
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For Sale
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ricardian » Tue Dec 22, 2020 11:28 am
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Potential sale of aircraft for dismantling to harvest reusable parts.
The aircraft available are as follows:
5 x Sentinel Aircraft & a...
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Went in there the other day and still only four departure desks and two immigration arrival desks. It would take hours to get a large pax load....
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Last post by G-CPTN
Wed Dec 23, 2020 6:26 am
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Solar Winds, defence and the meaning of life
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Boac » Tue Dec 15, 2020 9:11 am
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Placed here rather than in the idle waters of 'Computing' since the implications are far-reaching.
It would appear that Russian hackers may have...
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A former FBI deputy has alleged that President Trump has been diverting money from cybersecurity resources to build a wall at a time when the “nation...
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Last post by TheGreenGoblin
Fri Dec 18, 2020 7:45 pm
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RAF in 21st century?
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ricardian » Fri Dec 11, 2020 8:16 pm
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Thank goodness I was demobbed in 1973!
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Where is this video 4ma? Somehow it seems to have passed me by - is it because I is old?
The Ancient Mariner
It's on Fill Your Boots...
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Last post by 4mastacker
Sun Dec 13, 2020 4:49 pm
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Last post by Pontius Navigator
Fri Dec 11, 2020 9:49 am
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HMS Prince of Wales in difficulties
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ricardian » Tue Dec 08, 2020 9:23 am
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HMS Prince of Wales - flooded!
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a flood on a ship? Isn't it called sinking?
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A ship is always in a slow but perpetual state of sinking. Switch the pumps off and they will...
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Last post by TheGreenGoblin
Tue Dec 08, 2020 12:40 pm
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B52s in RAF Fairford
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Boac » Mon Aug 24, 2020 7:30 am
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I hope they are wearing masks.....
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Their missions can be very very long, so yes, perhaps they still had a silly amount of fuel for a landing, even after a round trip from Fairford to...
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Last post by Ex-Ascot
Fri Dec 04, 2020 6:18 am
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Strafing question
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Opsboi » Sat Nov 21, 2020 1:19 am
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Rather an interesting bit of whimsy in one of the other chatrooms I occasionally take a quick half in - main topic Welsh rugby, but that's by the by...
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If you look carefully the films show exactly what I am talking about. There are what you could call point targets and area targets. Point targets...
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Last post by boing
Mon Nov 30, 2020 4:40 pm
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