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- Fri Mar 24, 2023 8:52 am
- Forum: RAF Lakenheath
- Topic: Retirement
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1411
Re: Retirement
It's in a article the drive.on Google. It states its only the ones with the 220e engines
- Thu Mar 23, 2023 11:29 pm
- Forum: RAF Lakenheath
- Topic: Retirement
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1411
Retirement
I have just been reading a article where the US airforce is looking to submit plans to retire all the older engined F-15e's by 2028. Can anyone else shed some light on this.
- Sun Oct 16, 2022 11:10 am
- Forum: RAF Lakenheath
- Topic: Runway
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2141
Runway
I don't suppose anyone on here knows when will Lakenheath require a new runway. It must be getting pretty worn I know they had periods of patch ups.
- Wed Jun 02, 2021 6:30 am
- Forum: The Fighter Control Mess
- Topic: UK G7 2021- Tittle Tattle
- Replies: 254
- Views: 38474
Re: UK G7 2021- Tittle Tattle
So what would be wrong with a detachment of aircraft operating from valley.
- Fri May 07, 2021 1:27 pm
- Forum: RAF Mildenhall
- Topic: Mildenhall 7/5
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1858
Re: Mildenhall 7/5
Have had many passes by ospreys today in Cambridge always a pair. I wondered if they where going into Marshall's.
- Tue Mar 23, 2021 11:08 am
- Forum: The Fighter Control Mess
- Topic: Drone
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1084
Re: Drone
Thats why common sense should tell these people when trouble starts walk away.
- Tue Mar 23, 2021 10:17 am
- Forum: The Fighter Control Mess
- Topic: Drone
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1084
Drone
Is there someone on here who knows a bit about drones. I was thinking about the protests in the UK last weekend and was wondering would it be possible to deploy a drone or several equipped with a spray system. What it would do is spray permanent dye onto rioters allowing police to identify trouble m...
- Mon Mar 22, 2021 10:21 pm
- Forum: The Fighter Control Mess
- Topic: Defence Review Overview
- Replies: 127
- Views: 21628
Re: Defence Review Overview
Didn't the UK recently sign up to a European medium lift helicopter to replace both merlin and nh90. Also I think the RAF will be looking to the new trainer being developed in Anglia the one with changeable wings.
- Tue Mar 02, 2021 4:19 pm
- Forum: The Fighter Control Mess
- Topic: Exercise
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1722
Exercise
Does anyone know if there will be a cobra warrior exercise this year
- Mon Feb 15, 2021 6:12 am
- Forum: The Fighter Control Mess
- Topic: Hellenic AF to buy Rafale
- Replies: 15
- Views: 3326
Re: Hellenic AF to buy Rafale
Wasn't part of the deal also to upgrade 10 of the older mirage 2000's to the dash 5 standard.
- Sat Dec 19, 2020 3:55 pm
- Forum: The Fighter Control Mess
- Topic: New Wedgetail surveillance fleet to be based at RAF Lossiemouth
- Replies: 126
- Views: 22316
Re: New Wedgetail surveillance fleet to be based at RAF Lossiemouth
With the wedgetails going Lossiemouth and reds going waddington why not also base the hawks from Leeming their and shut Leeming down.
- Mon Oct 12, 2020 7:55 am
- Forum: The Fighter Control Mess
- Topic: Re yesterdays Keflavik deployment
- Replies: 21
- Views: 5220
Re: Re yesterdays Keflavik deployment
I suppose yes they could but what if you get there and you need to divert.
- Mon Aug 10, 2020 5:32 pm
- Forum: The Fighter Control Mess
- Topic: RAF Mildenhall to close. Lakenheath to get F-35 by 2020
- Replies: 1467
- Views: 585430
Re: RAF Mildenhall to close. Lakenheath to get F-35 by 2020
I wonder if the recent runway issues at Lakenheath, and the easy divert of those airborne F15s into Mildenhall, plus the Subsequent continued F15 operations out of Mildenhall over the following days also helped the decision at all? If Mildenhall was no longer there, where is the next official alter...
- Thu Jul 30, 2020 4:26 am
- Forum: The Fighter Control Mess
- Topic: RAF Mildenhall to close. Lakenheath to get F-35 by 2020
- Replies: 1467
- Views: 585430
Re: RAF Mildenhall to close. Lakenheath to get F-35 by 2020
Quite a few years ago there was a failed planning application at mildenhall to buy the land where the road goes round the back of beck row and west row. This was with extending the runway in mind I wonder if they will try again. They did offer to relocate the road.
- Thu Jul 16, 2020 6:31 am
- Forum: The Fighter Control Mess
- Topic: New helicopters
- Replies: 17
- Views: 5465
Re: New helicopters
My only concern is if the US decides on more tilt rotor aircraft to replace other legacy types one do they become too expensive for the UK government to order enough replacing airframes and two regarding naval operations on aircraft carriers they are fine but are they too big for operations on small...
- Fri Jul 10, 2020 8:13 pm
- Forum: The Fighter Control Mess
- Topic: New helicopters
- Replies: 17
- Views: 5465
Re: New helicopters
Chances are the puma will probably be retired without replacement but letting the out of service date creep up on the merlin would be a massive risk especially for the Navy. And personally no we don't have to many helicopters sometimes the Chinook is to big and noisy for some jobs and the wildcat is...
- Fri Jul 10, 2020 12:34 pm
- Forum: The Fighter Control Mess
- Topic: New helicopters
- Replies: 17
- Views: 5465
Re: New helicopters
Both variants of merlin are to be retired in 2029-30 which when considering how long this country takes to purchase items isn't that long.
- Fri Jul 10, 2020 4:41 am
- Forum: The Fighter Control Mess
- Topic: New helicopters
- Replies: 17
- Views: 5465
New helicopters
with the Puma not having too long before it retires and the merlin also having 10yrs left what do people think will replace these. Will it be a new version of merlin or something else, I don't think we will opt for the osprey as it is too expensive.
- Fri May 01, 2020 9:23 am
- Forum: The Fighter Control Mess
- Topic: Scampton
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1630
Scampton
I am sure this has already been covered but when the Red Arrows move and Scampton shuts does anyone know what will happen to the red air operations that use the base.
- Tue Apr 07, 2020 12:01 pm
- Forum: RIAT
- Topic: Possible combined airshows
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2714
Possible combined airshows
Do you think with dwindling budgets that a possible merger of RIAT and farnborough into one show would be a possibility. Hold it at Fairford and have the trade show during the week and public weekends