Operation Bloodhound - Red Shadow Air Cushion Landing Craft

[paul463]

Go on to the RAF Facebook page it gives updates on what our Tornado crews are up to. Nothing on the Ukraine though.

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War on three fronts Quickie?

Perhaps, in this age of asymmetrical hybridity-blah wherein paras deploy in white-painted armoured trucks that the Red Cross does not disavow as a fifth column even though they are touted as endorsing their arrival, and one wherein a ceasefire is not a ceasefire but is in fact a war that you can't call a war, we must in fact await the fourth and fifth fronts.... as if three was not sufficient.

Vlad's rant at Valdai Club meeting in Sochi put all the thermonoocooler threats back on the table, but seemed to be negotiation ploy before Italy meets, plus they signed the gas deal last night. But more troops moved in from Russia in last days.

Meantime Russian light entertainers are rolling up to take potshots at the Cyborgs at Donetsk Airport as if it was Sarajevo 1994 ...

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News of this in Aussie has dried up completely. All the focus is on Pakistan beating the Aussies in the cricket and a tiny bit on ISIL. Its like living in a vacuum here.

It gets worse. Aussie SF haven't been allowed into Iraq yet because they don't have visas. Allegedly.

Am guessing the 'Yorkshire Regiment' just flew into Erbil directly, far beyond the writ of Baghdad...

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Glad it wasn't just me who picked up on the Ÿorkshire Regiment" being sent in. God bless the SAS

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Go on to the RAF Facebook page it gives updates on what our Tornado crews are up to. Nothing on the Ukraine though.

I saw the RAF page about the Typhoon intercepts of the last days over North Sea-Atlantic.

Somewhere there is a page about all the E3 Sentry missions, ditto about deployment in the Baltic where it is now getting rather crowded.

Don't think the UK military establishment particularly wants to draw attention to the cause, the effects will suffice in the interim.

Oh yeah and the crappy US ELINT KC130?* planes are now getting a 'Hammer & Sickle' painted on them after each successful mission, including having to dive into Swedish airspace when SU27s turn up ...

*same ones UK now has ... and were flying in US colours for months because there were no coppers for a tin of paint.

I guess the handful of strike Tornados are just bumbling hither and thither from Akrotiri, VCRs on and Vim under the sink.

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Glad it wasn't just me who picked up on the Ÿorkshire Regiment" being sent in. God bless the SAS

has been practicing shouting YORKSHIRE YORKSHIRE YORKSHIRE from the top of a mountain for about eight weeks now.

Even the BBC have done a quick news item on them ... some of the types wandering around in the background a la Tuzla 94-95 are not on a sightseeing tour ...

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PS. RUAF SU27 vs. SE ELINT



http://theaviationist.com/2014/10/02/su ... int-plane/

The Aviationist is a great site if you don't already know it.

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PPS. Forgot about this one, also from the Baltic.





http://theaviationist.com/2014/06/18/ty ... ept-su-27/

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[paul463]

Ace!