Flying the Typhoon Through the Mach Loop at Low Level

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Not a bad way to spend your day at work.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kT7qrYi8R_M
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Superb

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AIRBORNE!


On the other hand, though . . .


More bloody vloggers!

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For some reason I expected to see one of these....

https://www.pilotfriend.com/photo_albums/images12/76.jpg

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[chickenstrip]

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Hi

Trouble is without them you leave the battlefield ruled by the 40 year old enemy

All the best

Keith
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[chickenstrip]

I suppose it's really no surprise that each of the Armed Services will fight their corners, try to justify their existence, and defend their share of the defence budget. But I wonder what kind of arguments the RAF are presenting for the "need" to keep these aircraft flying? Surely not, "well we only just got them, got to justify the spend"?

Keith, these are air superiority fighters. They have very little, if anything to do with what goes on, on the ground.
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[chickenstrip]

Fast jets is one thing - for that you want aircraft like the Harrier, or whatever it's replacement is going to be (F35?). Strike aircraft in other words. Am I wrong in thinking that the Typhoon is not designed for this role?
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[chickenstrip]

Ah, I wasn't aware that this was still going on. Seems we are slipping back in time then.
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[chickenstrip]

Actually, a couple of drones armed with air-to-air missiles would be enough to see those fellas off. Quite spooky for the Russian pilots too, I'd imagine. So, on balance, I still think the air superiority fighter's days are numbered.

What do you suppose those Typhoons would do if the Bears entered UK airspace and ignored the fighters?
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Whatever they're told to do .

Post 11/9, there's easy justification for shooting down any sort of plane.

Or you can just blame "the rebels" .

Of course the 'interesting' bit would be the calls to putin.

[chickenstrip]

You could use either drones or ground to air systems to shoot them down. I would have thought that would be a cheaper option than fighter aircraft. And if they continued to invade sovereign airspace, you'd be quite within your rights to do so.
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Hi

Do we have any long range ground to air missiles? Do we have drones that can fly against an enemy with more than rudimentary electronic counter measures?

All the best

Keith
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No idea what we have with drones right now, but I expect it would be fairly easy to make anti-aircraft drones that can handle reasonable amounts of ECM - basically you just need to be able to keep a data stream to it and it should be easy to make one that will take out most any plane - have it setup as half way to a human guided cruise missile exploding in a cloud of shrapnel and I doubt there's much other planes can do.

Oh and being 'within rights' and risking starting something bigger with Putin are worlds apart. (But then of course there's the risk of starting something by NOT blowing them out of the sky if they enter our airspace.)

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