Exercise 5-21 May?

[thevulcan]

B1's with that many munitions...

[Vulcanone]

B1's with that many munitions...

I can't remember how many either a B-1, B-2 or B-52 carries A fair number I recall....

Anyway back to the current exercise

[thevulcan]

A pair of ospreys up out of mildenhall to fairford?

[sdad]

14:23 eastbound over Northampton at 4750' USAF Herc showing as N352MJ on FR24. Apparently from and to Mildenhall via Fairford. I suspect just an MC-130J. Any details please?

[GT3ZZZ]

14:23 eastbound over Northampton at 4750' USAF Herc showing as N352MJ on FR24. Apparently from and to Mildenhall via Fairford. I suspect just an MC-130J. Any details please?

Showed on 360 Radar as 09-6207, credit Daventry RC Spotters FB Group.

[seven]

Wouldn't be the first weapon integrated to C-130s!

More likely for next months BTF than for MC-130s
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Joke dude. Serious posts don't contain a 'lol' smiley

B1's with that many munitions...

Went to the gym this morning. Felt quite buff afterwards.

[Nighthawke]

Once a guesser, always a guesser.

[Vulcanone]

Quite aware that it was a dull jokey comment. And yes some things have been added to MC-130s. And as well as USMC KC-130Js getting Harvest Hawk (IIRC)

Aside from that Nighthawke, just a shame World Air Power Journal isn't going now, as well as IAPR and both probably rarer than JASSMs at Fairford. What am I on about? Well I worked on the former....

[jigsaw]

B1's with that many munitions...

I can't remember how many either a B-1, B-2 or B-52 carries A fair number I recall....

Anyway back to the current exercise

8 JASSM per RLA (Rotary Launch Assembly.)
A B1 can carry 3 RLA's

[mushbuster]

The 747 is showing as departed at 1538 on Monday afternoon for Seoul as GTI9657.

[Vulcanone]

B1's with that many munitions...

I can't remember how many either a B-1, B-2 or B-52 carries A fair number I recall....

Anyway back to the current exercise

8 JASSM per RLA (Rotary Launch Assembly.)
A B1 can carry 3 RLA's

Thanks Jigsaw, Clearly stocking up for a rainy day... ;-)

[Arran J]

Do we know the timings of these exercises?

Is it mainly evenings?

[Selina59]

Do we know the timings of these exercises?

Is it mainly evenings?

So far all the action seems to be from 5pm onwards, so seems to be evenings/nights. I feel like I've seen somewhere (can't remember where now, potentially one of the FB sites so don't take this as gospel!) that the exercises are planned to be all evenings/after dark.

[Arran J]

Thank you

[IMarsh]

Sorry for this question, but I've been away last week and trying to catch up with what's happening at Fairford.

Reading the thread I can see that most (if not all activity) takes place in the evenings/overnight. So my question is really about what is at Fairford, I think it's three Osprey's, but I've also seen some chat/photos of C-130's (don't know how many) and a Wolfhound. Are they all visible during the day or are they hangared or just visiting at certain times?

Many thanks in advance

[thevulcan]

3 Ospreys and 3 MC-130Js all parked on the northern loop by the B2 hangars.

[IMarsh]

3 Ospreys and 3 MC-130Js all parked on the northern loop by the B2 hangars.

Thanks

[GT3ZZZ]

Flight of 3 Ospreys just passed Northampton, low level, heading East.

[IMarsh]

Is the exercise over as far as Fairford is concerned, or are the MC-130's and Ospreys expected back this week at all?

[thevulcan]

should be on for the whole of this week and next.