UK Confirms 9 Boeing P-8's to be purchased

Post by **flarkey** » Mon Jun 29, 2015 10:29 am

EGVP wrote:
onemac wrote:Just to clarify IF (and it's a biggie) Scotland decide to separate from the rest of the country, everywhere south of the border won't be British soil either
Why, will Britain no longer exist if one of the three territories is no longer part of it?

I think you mean four territories.

Post by **POL** » Mon Jun 29, 2015 10:51 am

Do I? I thought Great Britain was three, United Kingdom was four?

Post by **dinger** » Mon Jun 29, 2015 11:22 am

Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

Dinger

Post by **POL** » Mon Jun 29, 2015 11:33 am

That's the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Surely "British soil" refers to Great Britain, and therefore only three territories?

Post by **Arthur Tee** » Mon Jun 29, 2015 12:12 pm

Oh Lord! Do we now have to factor-in Ballykelly into the basing options now?

Arthur

Post by **Sky Pirate** » Mon Jun 29, 2015 2:08 pm

I suppose when the Government evennnntually

get round to it, the planes will be based either in Scotland, England or possibly

Shetland......

Post by **Gary** » Mon Jun 29, 2015 2:38 pm

Not sure it matters where they are going to based

The number that's been touted, a lot of them will probably be deployed or in maintenance a lot of the time

On a related subject many crews did the old Nimrod squadrons have?

Post by **Sky Pirate** » Mon Jun 29, 2015 2:40 pm

Eight/Nine I think Gary.....Got a couple of crew patches for Nimrod Sqn's one is crew 9 on 206 Sqn.On April 7th, Flt Lt Turnbull and Crew 8 aboard XV258 carried out a six-hour search for Argentine surface vessels and submarines, and also acted as a communications link between submerged RN nuclear submarines and Northwood. http://www.targetlock.org.uk/nimrod/service.html

Post by **Contrail1958** » Mon Jun 29, 2015 2:58 pm

Waddo would become such a High Value target with all these "Eggs" in one basket I
suppose they would have to move the airshow to somewhere else.
Security would be raised even more .

Post by **dinger** » Mon Jun 29, 2015 3:10 pm

Airshow, what Airshow??? Doubt it will happen again in my opinion so would not have a bearing on additional assets being based at Waddington.

Dinger

Post by **Sky Pirate** » Mon Jun 29, 2015 4:17 pm

Gary wrote:Not sure it matters where they are going to based The number that's been touted, a lot of them will probably be deployed or in maintenance a lot of the time

On a related subject many crews did the old Nimrod squadrons have?

A friendly ex Crew Chief has informed me the Operational Sqn's had nine crews available and the OCU 4 Gary...cheers Jim(Bluetail)

Hugh.

Post by **Gary** » Mon Jun 29, 2015 5:29 pm

Thanks Hugh, much appreciated mate

Post by **blackbox** » Tue Jun 30, 2015 6:58 pm

As a matter of interest hex code AE57B4 is showing on PP over the US. Believed to be P8 168848..... and in the call sign box is "P84UK"!!

Byronlightning · Post by **Byronlightning** » Tue Jun 30, 2015 9:11 pm

Strathayr wrote:If a large number are ordered it would make sense in many respects to reactivity Kinloss the Army could easily be re based easily elseware with minimal effect on their capabilities.

Why do you think they moved soldiers into Kinloss in the first place? They weren't the happiest to go there, but there is nowhere else. It's all part of getting them out of Germany. Waddington makes so much sense, as does the P8.

Post by **Contrail1958** » Tue Jun 30, 2015 9:28 pm

Byronlightning wrote:
Strathayr wrote:If a large number are ordered it would make sense in many respects to reactivity Kinloss the Army could easily be re based easily elseware with minimal effect on their capabilities.
Why do you think they moved soldiers into Kinloss in the first place? They weren't the happiest to go there, but there is nowhere else. It's all part of getting them out of Germany. Waddington makes so much sense, as does the P8.

Have to agree with you on that one but I don't think the soldiers want to move to Waddo.

Post by **plmc135** » Wed Jul 01, 2015 7:17 am

If the MoD were to order P-8's, or anything else for MPA, for the RAF, by the time they would be delivered there may also be another base available with a long runway, plenty of hard standings and hangars known as RAF Mildenhall.

Paul

Post by **ArabJazzie** » Wed Jul 01, 2015 9:39 am

Byronlightning wrote:
Strathayr wrote:If a large number are ordered it would make sense in many respects to reactivity Kinloss the Army could easily be re based easily elseware with minimal effect on their capabilities.
Why do you think they moved soldiers into Kinloss in the first place? They weren't the happiest to go there, but there is nowhere else. It's all part of getting them out of Germany. Waddington makes so much sense, as does the P8.

The Kinloss guys didnt come from Germany though! I was sure they were from Wisbeach. Leuchars are the place to get 5000 tro......... oh wait a minute.......
Arabest,
Geoff.

Post by **Vulcanone** » Wed Jul 01, 2015 9:54 am

ArabJazzie is correct

They were engineers from what was RAF Waterbeach if memory serve me correctly

Tim S

Post by **Contrail1958** » Wed Jul 01, 2015 10:11 am

Ahhh so it's not about getting anything out of Germany then, glad we cleared that up.

Post by **Andy_99** » Wed Jul 01, 2015 11:31 am

topic drift - With the way the Russian bear is stirring I can see us moving back into Europe again soon.

Mildenhall could well end up staying as well.

I'm pretty sure the P8's will end up at Waddo if/when we get them.

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