comon people..they named a animal after the Tu-95 didnt they !!!!!!!!. 😀 😀

other way round mate 😀 😀 😀

As far as tons of bombs dropped, combatants (and civilians) killed and the affect on imagination, there is no comparison between the B-52 and the Tu-95.

When you think of B-52, you think of Dr. Stranglove, Arclight, Linebacker and rock band. A military and cultural icon.

😀 No band named the Tu-95’s that I know of :diablo: There is a B-52 cocktail as well, saw it on a med holiday years ago.

No idea how the Shackleton name was picked
One story is that there was a Chadwick family connection………….( by memory on the female side)

Roy Chadwick named it the Shackleton, after Sir Ernest Shackleton the great Antarctic Explorer, and also after his wife’s grandmother Agnes Shackleton, who was a distant relative of the explorer.

I can see the connection there Vern and thanks for the link to the ‘naming rules’ web page – interesting that! Back to Nimrod and the Classics, briefly, in the old testament, Cush begat Nimrod and Nimrod became a mighty hunter in the face of the Lord (it’s all Old Testament stuff this) and there appears to have been an awful lot of begating going on then. This makes perfect sense when naming the current Nimrod, so perhaps the orginal Hawer bi-plane, given the NAVAL link, was named after Shackleton’s first ship of exploration? Indeed does, ‘Shackleton’ buck the trend around the naming of bombers after cities? This is an interesting subject and one which I (clearly) haven’t read around enough, so please excuse the ignorance.

Rules changed in the 1950’s hence Victor Vulcan and Valiant. No idea how the Shackleton name was picked, but the current Nimrod name was selected because of the name of the ship (a guy who worked on the things told me the story).

the first Hawker Nimrod – Naval aircraft naming rules

@Nick 76

Disadvantages are jammable and radiating out energy which can be detected by the enemy. But I doubt enemy jammers will jam the Typhoon’s small MAW radars, they don’t threat the enemy, however it would be possible.

On the other hand the active MAWs are weather independent and can effectivley track a missile even if its rocket motor has burned out. More important is the fact that with such active MAWs you are able to gain more data about the missile approaching. In the Eurofighter for example the pilot sees where the enemy missile(s) is/are and the system automatically suggests the best evasive maneuvers and when the pilot has to fly them. In combination with highly effective automatically controlled CM the Typhoon has good chances to defeat enemy missiles. But that just for info.

Thanks about the information about MKIs MAW. Hope it’s right maybe we find a reliable source for that.

The Jammer would give its position away too, so I don’t think they would be that much of a problem.

Indeed, I’ve read that elsewhere too. Despite an appalling history of ill treatment of the indigenous cultures, we in Australia have been keen to use Aboriginal names for aircraft – the CAC Wirraway, Boomerang, and Winjeel all being examples of course.

The British chosen name for the bomber ‘Canberra’ is, unlikely as it may seem, actually an Aboriginal name for ‘meeting place’, but like most terms there’s argument about if that’s correct, or actually the name of a tribe, and there’s dispute about how to pronounce it!

It is, I think, the only name of a British aircraft that’s from a foreign capital city, although the Boeing Washington came within two letters of it. 😉

Back in the day, anyone in the higher echelons of the RAF and Air Min, and in senior design staff etc. would have (or be expected to have) a solid classical education. It’s only today such terms seem obscure. To them the bible, Greek annd Roman history was a touchstone as readily referred to as todays’ celeb trivia magazines are by the illiterati.

‘Nimrod – the mighty hunter’. Nimrod is a movement in Elgar’s Enigma Variations; one of the most popular pieces of classical music, and seen as very British…

Cheers

You wants some classics Overstrand and Sidestrand, two villages in Norfolk near Cormer (something to do with Boulton Paul). Nimrod was the name of a ship commanded by a guy called Ernest Shackleton on the first expedition to Antarctica that he personally commanded (that is the reason that the HS801 was called the Nimrod, a follow on to the Shackleton). Canberra, named after a Commonweath captial city (Bristol Bombay and HP Hydrabad are other examples of aircraft named after towns in the empire) Wellington was more likey a follow on from Wellesley light bomber, than the name of a place in New Zealand (met the criteria however). Fairey Gordon another light bomber named after a General (based on the IIIF). There is a Washington in England (Tyne and Wear) hence the name meets the UK and Commonweath town rules, as well as the US connection.

Dear Member,

There is a question about the lost of that F-111A over Libya

F-111F you mean???