"Grindintosecond" (Grindintosecond)
03/22/2017 at 20:24 • Filed to: None
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Viggen
> Grindintosecond
03/22/2017 at 20:28 |
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Mmmm Harriers and nods
RallyWrench
> Grindintosecond
03/22/2017 at 20:38 |
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There is literally nothing that could make me not love the Harrier. I still have a picture my Marine cousin took and sent me of one taking off from whatever carrier he was on in the Gulf.
Svend
> Grindintosecond
03/22/2017 at 20:44 |
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I still can’t believe we got rid of the Harrier from U.K. forces.
The latest loss was the Sea King.
wafflesnfalafel
> Svend
03/22/2017 at 21:54 |
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Didn’t we over here in the states buy them up for our Marines? Jump Jet...
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Svend
> wafflesnfalafel
03/22/2017 at 21:57 |
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Ye’, when we mothballed them. They were hooked up to electrics and maintained then we sold them to the U.S. for a massive discount for the U.S. to use them as spare parts.
I believe some are sat in a boneyard in Nevada.
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wafflesnfalafel
> Svend
03/22/2017 at 22:14 |
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coupon special...
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Svend
> wafflesnfalafel
03/22/2017 at 22:22 |
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More like family discount.
facw
> Svend
03/22/2017 at 23:54 |
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Yes, the AMARC Experience webpage says we have 50 there (3 GR.7 and 47 GR.9). I don’t see them on satellite pics (and I think the imagery is new enough), but maybe they being kept in hangars or other shelters.
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facw
> Svend
03/22/2017 at 23:56 |
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All that austerity for you. Apparently the Queen Elizabeth is going to be flying US F-35Bs initially, since the UK hasn’t had many delivered at this point.
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Svend
> facw
03/23/2017 at 00:01 |
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I recall seeing about six on Google Earth last years.
They only had covers over the glass and engine intakes.
EDIT: Sorry, just looked, they are at AMARG, Tucson, Arizona.
The whole lot sold for £116million.
Other images since Google Earth show they’ve been cannibalised.
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Svend
> facw
03/23/2017 at 00:13 |
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The U.S. Marines will have their aircraft on our aircraft carriers till ours arrive.
http://www.forces.net/news/tri-service/us-fly-f-35-royal-navys-hms-queen-elizabeth
UK Defence Secretary Sir Michael Fallon has confirmed that the US will deploy F-35 fighter planes on board the Royal Navy’s new aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth.
The planes will be US Marine Corps F-35B jets, with UK planes expected to do the same on US vessels “in the fullness of time”.
Granted this was all pre-trumpton.