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Re: Operation Bloodhound - Red Shadow Air Cushion Landing Cr
Posted: 21 Nov 2014 23:15
by Quickfire
Meanwhile in Paris.
Krasivaya molodaya zhenshina

Re: Operation Bloodhound - Red Shadow Air Cushion Landing Cr
Posted: 21 Nov 2014 23:20
by Quickfire
Re: Operation Bloodhound - Red Shadow Air Cushion Landing Cr
Posted: 21 Nov 2014 23:23
by Quickfire
Meanwhile in Poland.
20 Challengers and 100 Warriors.
Those infants know nothing about dispersal.
PS. Rare pic of a Challenger that works (outside Catterick or Bielefeld/Herford)

Re: Operation Bloodhound - Red Shadow Air Cushion Landing Cr
Posted: 22 Nov 2014 09:23
by paul463
A lot of those Charlie 2's were brought out of storage for this event. Perhaps ready to be left at a new Forward base in Poland!
Re: Operation Bloodhound - Red Shadow Air Cushion Landing Cr
Posted: 22 Nov 2014 09:47
by Quickfire
paul463 wrote:A lot of those Charlie 2's were brought out of storage for this event. Perhaps ready to be left at a new Forward base in Poland!
Hopefully ... all 20 of them. And that someone provides reactive armour, artillery support etc. at some point too.
Everything seems to be in storage or on/about to be scrapped (inc. some of the planes dragged to Cyprus) or sold (still can't get used to hundreds of Ukrainian soldiers and volunteers in UK DPM 95 pattern and similar, PLCEs and Mk 6 helmets ... some of the Russians have them too, but mainly desert kit for some reason).
At least UK has air cover from France who went unilateral and based Rafales in Poland earlier in the year.

Re: Operation Bloodhound - Red Shadow Air Cushion Landing Cr
Posted: 22 Nov 2014 09:54
by Thundershot
It'd be damned unsporting of the Russians to start a war now, they know our aircraft carriers wont be ready for another 5 years.
Re: Operation Bloodhound - Red Shadow Air Cushion Landing Cr
Posted: 22 Nov 2014 10:28
by paul463
Thundershot wrote:It'd be damned unsporting of the Russians to start a war now, they know our aircraft carriers wont be ready for another 5 years.
Aye and a similar number of years for the F35's to be ready for them too.
The 1930's all over again.
Re: Operation Bloodhound - Red Shadow Air Cushion Landing Cr
Posted: 22 Nov 2014 10:36
by Quickfire
Re: Operation Bloodhound - Red Shadow Air Cushion Landing Cr
Posted: 22 Nov 2014 10:37
by Quickfire
paul463 wrote:Thundershot wrote:It'd be damned unsporting of the Russians to start a war now, they know our aircraft carriers wont be ready for another 5 years.
Aye and a similar number of years for the F35's to be ready for them too.
The 1930's all over again.
EXACTLY!

How right you are, HOW RIGHT YOU ARE!

Re: Operation Bloodhound - Red Shadow Air Cushion Landing Cr
Posted: 22 Nov 2014 17:20
by Quickfire
Meanwhile at Belbek airbase (scene of the confrontation back in late Feb or early March between UA air force personnel and Russian paratroopers in front of a load of journos) in Crimea...
