Posted on 12/10/2014 7:51:16 AM PST by C19fan
Britain called in Nato sea patrol planes to hunt for a suspected Russian submarine off Scotland last month, after the Government scrapped its own similar aircraft in defence cuts, it has been disclosed. Maritime patrol aircraft from France, America and Canada flew to Scotland to join Royal Navy warships hunting for the suspected submarine after it was spotted at sea, west of Scotland At the height of the hunt in late November and first days of December, four allied patrol planes flew to RAF Lossiemouth to join the search, Aviation Week reported.
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It is ok we are all one happy family.
Nope.
We won't ask NATO to track Russian submarines.
We'll ask China...
What is this ‘Nato’? Did someone mean NATO?
The UK would be wise to start pulling their weight. I hope they realize the Americans might not be ready, willing, or able to come to their rescue this time.
Britain spent Billions on the aircraft just to send them to the shredder ,D’oh
The Brits seems to have that fetish. There was the TSR program during the 60s where Britain developed what would of been the premier strike aircraft in the world but the Labour/Socialist ran out of other’s people mone. The US forced the Brits to cancel the program in order to get an IMF bailout. So the Brits destroyed the prototypes and the machinery used to produce the aircraft.
Kind of ironic considering that the Royal Navy was considered to be NATO’s ASW specialists. People should have lost their careers for exposing Britain to this kind of capability gap...
[insert facepalm here]
Perhaps the Jean Luc Picard one with a comment about needing Klingons to patrol the Romulian neutral zone. hee, hee
The problem is that NATO has a mole now in Turkey.
Rule Britannia! Britannia rules the waves!
Pretty soon the UK will have one of each: one soldier, one plane, one pilot, one tank, one ship, etc ... an affordable military ...
Speaking of tracking Russian subs..
My favorite (Cold) war movie. Tracking a sub off Greenland.
The Bedford Incident
http://www.amazon.com/The-Bedford-Incident-Richard-Widmark/dp/B0000AMRUP
“Roger, fire one”...........
I was at RAF Lossiemouth in the mid 80’s. They had Shackletons and Buccaneers that performed maritime operations. Both of those aircraft were 1940/50’s vintage, respctively. They retired them in the early 90’s. I guess they never invested in replacement aircraft.
On a side note, that’s quite a return on investment. The Shackleton was a sister aircraft to the Lancaster bomber.
The Brits always flew the Nimrod, a converted Comet jet liner, but those planes were retired and the replacement aircraft was cancelled.
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