interesting also:

the Pentagon has just confirmed that: “[…] US and Coalition aircraft have not been, and will not be, using depleted uranium munitions in Iraq or Syria during Operation Inherent Resolve,” meaning that the 30 mm Depleted Uranium ammunition has not and won’t be loaded onto the A-10s.

Extracted from the above Link

Please notice that I added an interrogation mark at the end of the title (see news section). This to be debated and assessed as a valid/non-valid news.

The story of the M88 potentially fitted in a JF17 is a long one. The fact that WantChina Times (Taiwan based) reported it last day was the interesting point in my view.

@Marcellogo:
I was referring to the sketched plan view on top of the poster (see bellow)

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These claims are completely out of the time frame of the actual Tu-95 incident. It is a classic example of people misidentifying aircraft and then jumping to the wrong conclusions based on a media story. During their claims USAF KC-135s and F-15s were operating in the area along with an RAF C-17 in the circuit at Newquay International. RAF QRA scramble for this incident were RAF Voyager 1435 GMT from RAF Brize Norton and RAF Typhoons from RAF Coningsby at approximately 1630 GMT.

I understand your skepticism, but the first question is: has it happens before ? Did witnesses pop-up with such claims in a similar scenario ?

C’mon there had been Bear around the British island and people playing golf there since years…

And by the way, there might have been two planes, one low and a high one to suck-up the QRA away from the simulated strike element*.

What would be the goal of Putin if such is true? Make sure that the RAF keep a consequent part of their fighter squadrons at home in case of a major incident.

This is serious stuff.

*A thumbs-up to the pair of Typhoon pilots – it’s hard to impress a massive airplane flown by determined ppl with a nimble aircraft – RAF might have a fresh look at their tactics – it’s not like Rugby wasn’t invented there

Just some beautiful Russian image of aircraft refueling:

ToT?

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But wishing for commercial maintenance on bomber engines will be dead on arrival if the government depot at Tinker has anything to say about it. They have their jobs to protect and B-52s continuing to fly with ancient TF33s protects their jobs.

This is quite disrespectful for the people that have managed to keep the BUFF in operation during all those years.

It’s an old bird. There is a plentiful of problems that can arise without a proper notice (see the inner tank coating pealing after the move from JP4 to 8 for ex. ). The synergistic impact of one problem to another push to a cautious stepping into any novel solution.

This is not conservatism. Nor it is a sign of corporatism. This is a scientific and cost effective approach toward any solution.