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617 is already at Marhell.
207 is going to Marhell this summer from MCAS Beuafort.
17 is staying at Edwards AFB in California.

No way an innocent mistake. Spent three years with a personally allocated MT Car. Absolutely zero personal use allowed and they are all tracked by GPS. CSs combed the paperwork for inaccuracies. I don't know the guy, and have no bone in the fight, but it smacks to me of he thought he was above the r...

It already exists. 207.

Badge is irrelevant. All aircrew and Sqns train to the same standard and same competencies and will deploy the same.

But lets not let facts or reality get in the way of the internet experts.

Ron5 wrote:What the RAF bods here are missing is the genuine concern that RAF standards will be applied to F-35B deployments and not RN.

What standards mate? Genuinely interested in what you mean, or is it just more spineless sniping?

Dahedd wrote:With the announcement today of the purchase of 5 E7 Wedgetail is it not about time to look again at booms on the Voyagers? That's now C17, P8 & E7s that require a boom to refuel.

Discuss!

There is no fucking money, discuss.

RetroSicotte wrote:One way or another. This is a cut, and it should always be referred to as such.

I get your point, but gayways availability was so shit that this might see an improvement in some respects.

Good......

Cottesmore is fully army-fied.

There are no plans to base Typhoons anywhere else than Con/Lossie. End of.

Ok mate, you clearly know more than me about how RAF FJ Sqns work!

Crack on.

This shit makes me laugh.

Pure fantasy, there aren’t enough maintenance staff nor pilots for this pipe dream. Can barely find manning for 12 Sqn as it is.

Jokers.

Thirded.

What does the thread starter think tho?

Good for you. Remind us again what percentage of threads across the forum were started by you? You had the stat a while ago.....

I would remind people that this thread is only for the UK's F-35B aircraft. This thread is in the UK Equipment section. If you have international news of the F-35A/B/C, please use the international threads. Thankyou. I would remind you that you are not a mod. But that would be pointless because you...

@Sunk at Narvik How is the UK going to operate double the aircraft with the same ground crew? (are they still called ground crew ion a carrier?) Aircraft Handler is the closest to ground crew in the FAA I guess, obviously they have other roles assigned such as Air controllers and Air engineers. Air...

Why would the marines bring their own support crew? I thought the whole point of "interoperability" is that a US F35 can touch down on an RN carrier, get its windscreen wiped and top up without having to redeploy dozens of blokes from its own carrier. There is a load of difference between...

If it was Leuchars then it was far more likely he was watching F3s.

Still can't do 4 SS like the fin.

Personally I think there are bigger priorities than an AShM on Typhoon.

I think people are reading too much into those numbers in the article and put their own answers to get a conclusion they favour. The 72 number is the ships theoretical maximum in terms of ship design for things like refuelling ammo loads etc. The number of F35 sorties will be another number entirel...

Wasn’t cancelled for weight reasons.

ArmChairCivvy wrote:

downsizer wrote:

ArmChairCivvy wrote:- if the patrol/ scramble is done in pairs, then only one a/c would be armed (routinely)

Eh? What?

Pls do refine the calculation how to make the C5s last out to 2030
- every little bit helps (talking about money pinching, in extremis)

Pretty sure both QRA jets will always be armed.

ArmChairCivvy wrote:- if the patrol/ scramble is done in pairs, then only one a/c would be armed (routinely)

Eh? What?

Just because it was announced on a date when everyone (including the press) was back at work, doesn't mean it wasn't ready earlier. Jeez, the internet is full of tubes and swivel eyed idiots.

Lord Jim wrote:Remember a great many these days are BAe or Rolls Royce personnel, both at forward and depth.

Not forward they aren’t.