Posted on 12/09/2010 8:53:52 AM PST by sukhoi-30mki
An awesome plane that I had the privilege to see fly!
Poor Nimrod - beautiful looking...
This is a crying shame, but we better get used to the new view as we are going to be facing the same difficulties. We are as much financially overextended as the Brits. It is a sad state of affairs which we brought on ourselves, thinking that the printing of money and the expansion of debt was the equivalent of increasing wealth. It isn’t as the 3rd raters who run everything are beginning to learn.
Who’s the Nimrod that made this decision?
(somebody had to ask....)
You would think somebody would want to buy those things.
I wonder if they could be made to run on 87 octane? (Not. My '87 420SEL Benz needs high test!)
It is incredible how gum't can just flush the fruits of the toils of their peasants, after lining a lot of significant pockets. Ours is just as bad, if not worse!!!
After consideration, I must conclude we are worse!
Are those missiles I see mounted under the wing and if so are they offensive or defensive?
We need the funds to pay for our cradle to grave soccer
hooligans!
We need the funds to pay for our cradle to grave soccer
hooligans!
A Nimrod is as Nimrod does.
Nobody had to post that but I did.
They'll run just fine on JET-A, and will do OK on highway (or farm use) diesel if you don't fly too high.
The Nimrod can carry anti-shipping, anti-submarine, stand-off land strike and air-to-air missiles.
Ship them to Davis-Monthan AFB and cocoon them at the boneyard. When/if the poofters running the UK govt. are replaced with a Churchill/Thatcher type, the aircraft can be reclaimed.
I’ll just be making runs to WalMart... ;>)
Cocoon them until a Churchill/Thatcher type appears...that was my thought exactly.
The scrap value can’t be that much. Why not save them?
How did “Nimrod” become a pejorative?
He was a Greek hero, a famous hunter, with a silly sounding name to the modern ear.
Well I guess Ajax is a kitchen cleaner, and Milo is a South American sports drink, and Sampson makes luggage.....
Look like they’re Harpoons, or the EU equivalent. Nimrod, like our Orions operate in the anti-shipping role as well as ASW.
Nimrod was a great hunter. But he is also blamed for building the Tower of Babel.
Beautiful airplane. Militarized version of the DeHavilland Comet-4. Had a chance to see one at Andrews several years ago and talk to the crew!
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