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Why are Typhoons launched on Bear QRAs?
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space monkey
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Re: Why are Typhoons launched on Bear QRAs?
The Navy do like to be a little different tho, maybe they could compromise and have a ramp take off with cat recovery, you could even fit a cat along the recovering runway likes cats 3&4 on the USS ships
Re: Why are Typhoons launched on Bear QRAs?
ta!ythanpythan wrote:Quick Reaction Alert- Simply put some aircraft, Typhoons in our case, are kept ready to go at a moments notice to intercept aircraft deemed a (potential) threat or of interest. Basically a Scramble!