P8 Poseidon would make an excellent replacement for the role once done by Nimrod MR2 and should have been done by MRA2. And UK should buy it. Is there a SIGINT version of P8? Cost a bit if there isn’t.
So you’re saying it would have been best to keep the Nimrod R.1 going despite the fact that RAF crews have trained on USAF RC135W for some years now and are now interchangeable between the two air forces aircraft…..seeing as the countries share the intelligence this always seem a no brainier to me. No one ever suggest what airframe the RAF should have used for SIGINT other that RC135W.
He did indeed, it was 50th anniversary of the first flight of the Spitfire on 5th March 1936. I saw him fly past out of the office window I was working in at the time.
Some potentially good news…..a decision on the future of the aircraft is be put to the local council on March 17th with the view to KB882 moving to an as yet unidentified museum.
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