Now testing is complete the manual and lesson plans can be typed up and then the training can begin.

cockneyjock1974 wrote:

Smokey wrote:A photo from inside the wardroom?

You Sir may have just won the internet

I’ll share half my prize money with Arfah as it was him who first asked the question.

There hasn’t been an RAF boss since 2014.

Present one is RN, Army prior to that.

A photo from inside the wardroom?

downsizer wrote:All about the important shit. This thread....!

The wardroom carpet is red, btw.

Personnel recovery HC4

MRTT News

https://www.flightglobal.com/news/artic ... rs-441497/

MRTT news

https://www.flightglobal.com/news/artic ... rs-441497/

sea_eagle wrote:Indeed and my point was sell it to DfID as a hospital ship after removing any military stuff which we can reuse..

Smokey wrote:She's being sold, not given away.

£80M of foreign cash earned instead of transferring liquidity between departments.

She's being sold, not given away.

downsizer wrote:Maybe someone in the Army could tell us their first hand experience. Oh, wait.....

@Happyslapper

Who was amongst the first to use Foxhound in Kabul.

So, one day, HMS Belfast will be alongside HMS Belfast in London.

Rambo wrote:

Smokey wrote:

MRCA wrote:Belfast, London or Cardiff, they’ll go for the capitals

Has Edinburgh fallen out of favour then ?

£5.00 of fake, old style, pound coins on "Liverpool"

I would agree. but, isnt POW already affiliated to Liverpool?

That explains why she's still in drydock mounted on bricks.

MRCA wrote:Belfast, London or Cardiff, they’ll go for the capitals

Has Edinburgh fallen out of favour then ?

£5.00 of fake, old style, pound coins on "Liverpool"

Hope not?

With regards to the next name, IIRC the 'City' class is also to have a "Battle of the Atlantic" theme?

dmereifield wrote:Why name it now, before steel is cut?

Once affiliated, politically it becomes more difficult to cancel.

Not impossible though.

Tiderace has docked

The Algerian's MiGs were taken in by Russia (MiG.29 SMT).

Good point about unlimited airspace, better weather too.

I think Sardinia would be a better option though as it is familiar to NATO and less likely to be interrupted by internal politics and fanatics.

Dissimilar Air Combat Training. The U.S. has ex-Moldovan MiG.29's which seem to be very camera shy (as was with MiG.21's,23's and SU.22's). Maybe they are no longer flyable? There are NATO nations with MiG.29's that provide DACT for NATO units on pre-deployment, particularly countering the Off-Bores...

WhitestElephant wrote:Will the Argies moan and squirm as they did when we first sent a T45 to the islands?

They'd moan even if HM Govt. sent a klepper kayak.

HMS Forth will be heading to the South Atlantic to relieve HMS Clyde.

http://en.mercopress.com/2017/09/22/fal ... -hms-forth

HMS Ocean has arrived in the BVI.

Northern Ireland gets missiles?

Zealot wrote:There are also rumors of a CTA 50 cal. in development

50 cal. as in half an inch or 50mm?

Crashed jet is a Tupolev Tu22 "Backfire - C"