Thanks, Thunder. Sky News showing live footage of Qatari Mirage 2000s landing in Crete. TJ Diverted earlier into Larnaca Cyprus due to a fuel emergency. Initially denied landing by the Cypriot authorities. Now at Souda Bay Photo here http://sharing.fox10tv.com/sharewlin//photo/2011/03/22/APTOPIX-Cy...

T_J wrote:

KINROTATE wrote:How ironic it would be if the Saudis sent F.3's.

Weren't the Saudi ADVs retired and put in storage some time ago?

TJ

Yip all gone now

Do we have any contacts Fairford way that could shed any light on probability of op's there, B2's and the like? Cheers Pune Do you honestly think anyone in the know would say so on an open forum? Anyway the United States are keen to take a step back from this asap and there is no need to forward de...

So this is why people did not see Qatar or UAE get stuck in with the first few days of strike activity to make the airspace available to police during the No Fly Stage. Again, Saudi Arabia would (coming in this late of a stage) provide F-15Cs for Policing role. Qatari jets were over Libya during th...

Listening to the news over the last few days, I'm shocked at the poor quality of reporting both from poor information and the apparent lack of basic communication skills ie: poor spoken grammar, stuttering and spluttering and so on.

T_J wrote:Breaking on Sky News. Saudi Arabia has announced that they are ready to contribute aircraft.

TJ

Now that would make things very interesting. If they contribute I would imagine other Arab nations would follow

UAE had already deployed to Italy over the weekend acording to reports.

Swedish on 10 day stand-by to send Gripens

Sky news just said it crashed due to engine failure, not sure if that is just speculation tho, they showed a Lakenheath F15E taking off but not sure if that was old footage, are Lakeneath Eagles at Gioa or are they US based Eagles on deployment there? Cheers, glad both are safe Lakenheath Eagles ar...

What's the CSAR capability in theatre ..anyone know? USS Kearsage has Seahawks on board, the Canadian frigate has a Sea King, and I'm sure that the other USN Ships have a few helicopters to add. I dare say the Kearsage has CH53's and/or MV22's onboard along with a Marine Recon det. The Italians hav...

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BOLLO wrote:Could be one of the Canadian CF18'S???

Wait for the facts. By all means reports coming out of the country are saying F15E



Edit: Comfirmed by the Pentagon as one of theirs

Just caught a brief glimpse of the RAF Typhoons taxying on BBC News. Did one still have `tags` hanging from the weapons :S I'm sure someone in the know will clarify, but I believe it is known as Last Chance, Arm/De Arm, EOR (end of the runway)? The tags/pins are removed at that point. http://www.f-...

What call sign was it using as that may help identify the person/mission?

I was under the impression that since the First Gulf War and the videos of captured aircrew it wasn't deemed appropriate to identify. I know that when I was in Iraq I was told never to have any faces or names tags etc etc... in any photos that I was taking.

Mods - feel free to remove if required. Rich http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WZ08ddA5-c" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; BBC already posted the preflight vid profiling both crews faces, shouldn't see it being a problem. Somehow I think that is a leaked video if not then someone within...

Some interesting points today, The Danish have flown their first missions according to reports, reports from Al Jazeera that Qatari jets are already over Libya and the UAE have as well already deployed to Italy Belgian and Norwegian a/c to join the task force on Monday Turkey want NATO to review pla...

alchemist2001 wrote:Any chance of more departures from Marham tonight? Hope that's a reasonable (non-dodgy) question to ask. Please ignore if not!

Good chance.

Seemingly Qatari and UAE combat a/c to fly to forward operating bases in Italy tomorrow. Should be interesting

The bonus of using such a weapon is they can launched well out over the Med, thus hopefully avoiding any Air Defences. Not saying you are media Billy, but please understand what info you are after is restricted, yes a great deal of people know this info and yes it is out there on the WWW network but...

Tanker support was stacking up across the Atlantic so it was an educated guess that a Global Air Power mission was on it's way.

I wonder if the US will unleash the B52 ??