Like everything this current government do, they rush a plan through against all advice, then realise they messed up and start back peddling. Scrapped the Nimrod, then realise the Royal Navy told them the nuclear submarine deterrent won't work without it so rush off and buy some old US scrap to fill the gap.
This CUNTry (UK) is Fucking SHIT. Incapable of seeing anything through to completion properly since the 60's. We've shat so much down the pan, through bureaucracy and indecision.
£600 million to finish building and to bring into service 14 MRA4 Nimrods.....scrapped and 'replaced' by 3 reTIRED USAF RC-135 rivet joints built in 1964 in total costing £612 million. Their argument is that the 3 aircraft will cost less to run over 10 years than the Nimrods but ofcourse they will as there are only 3!! dumb!?! but the RAF need more than 3 but they do have a plan for this.....lets get France and the US to patrol our waters for free! Nice move again Conservatives!
@tonightwefly While I agree with your sentiments, and believe the armed forces should be bolstered back to early/mid cold war strength on the basis that it would deliver lots of construction jobs, military jobs, inspiration for kids, and discipline (which is clearly lacking in modern Britain), and it would put Britain back into the category that can hold its own against enemies of TOMORROW, your facts are wrong. The Rivetjoint will be there to replace Nimrod R1, of which there were 3.
£600 million to finish building and to bring into service 14 MRA4 nimrods.....scrapped and 'replaced' by 3 RC-135 rivet joints built in 1964 in total costing £612 million, great move conservatives!
@tonightwefly The Nimrod R1 are being replaced by the Rivet Joints there not replacing the MR2 but why they didnt keep 3 MR4'S and use then as R1 who knows.
I work on the MRA4 and I know she will make it to the skies over Scotland . People hate me for my passion of this jet for reasons i know . The RAF choose people who were right and i am passionate about this aircraft. I just so dissapointed in others my freinds over many years that use me as a target for anger. Freinds who i thought were engineers , how mistaken I was but i hold no regrets . I just feel like Im the cause for it all
great!!!
marceloluizpires1 7 months ago
Like everything this current government do, they rush a plan through against all advice, then realise they messed up and start back peddling. Scrapped the Nimrod, then realise the Royal Navy told them the nuclear submarine deterrent won't work without it so rush off and buy some old US scrap to fill the gap.
simonsaysjapan 8 months ago
This CUNTry (UK) is Fucking SHIT. Incapable of seeing anything through to completion properly since the 60's. We've shat so much down the pan, through bureaucracy and indecision.
xoio 11 months ago
Thanks Cameron...you dumb fuck...
tom211t 11 months ago
£600 million to finish building and to bring into service 14 MRA4 Nimrods.....scrapped and 'replaced' by 3 reTIRED USAF RC-135 rivet joints built in 1964 in total costing £612 million. Their argument is that the 3 aircraft will cost less to run over 10 years than the Nimrods but ofcourse they will as there are only 3!! dumb!?! but the RAF need more than 3 but they do have a plan for this.....lets get France and the US to patrol our waters for free! Nice move again Conservatives!
tonightwefly 1 year ago 4
@tonightwefly While I agree with your sentiments, and believe the armed forces should be bolstered back to early/mid cold war strength on the basis that it would deliver lots of construction jobs, military jobs, inspiration for kids, and discipline (which is clearly lacking in modern Britain), and it would put Britain back into the category that can hold its own against enemies of TOMORROW, your facts are wrong. The Rivetjoint will be there to replace Nimrod R1, of which there were 3.
thatman64 2 months ago
£600 million to finish building and to bring into service 14 MRA4 nimrods.....scrapped and 'replaced' by 3 RC-135 rivet joints built in 1964 in total costing £612 million, great move conservatives!
tonightwefly 1 year ago
@tonightwefly The Nimrod R1 are being replaced by the Rivet Joints there not replacing the MR2 but why they didnt keep 3 MR4'S and use then as R1 who knows.
scotty2681 2 months ago
Thanks Dr Fox
chipledhungaman 1 year ago
RIP.
lostinthegroovey 1 year ago
R.I.P Nimrod! due to be scrapped march 2011...
lukozaid 1 year ago 5
Shame its costing so much, but it is bigger, faster and more capable than any other maritime patrol aircraft. Can't wait to see it in service.
SteamboatWilley 1 year ago
I work on the MRA4 and I know she will make it to the skies over Scotland . People hate me for my passion of this jet for reasons i know . The RAF choose people who were right and i am passionate about this aircraft. I just so dissapointed in others my freinds over many years that use me as a target for anger. Freinds who i thought were engineers , how mistaken I was but i hold no regrets . I just feel like Im the cause for it all
Robsta1974 1 year ago
@Robsta1974 Man you must feel like shit now. Bad bad times.
edj66 10 months ago
I built parts for the MRA4, makes me smile every time i see one flying
XH5582007 1 year ago
She is lovely , she will kick ass and do what people want. MRA4 will beat all
Robsta1974 2 years ago 2
Alan Partridge doing the commentary...
the Nimrod can actually land on the pedestrian area of Norwich city centre.
staffsmole 2 years ago
the engines are quiet. Nooooo! :( :(
AdrianNtart 2 years ago
She looks Sexy , thanks for the vid
Robsta1974 2 years ago
Great video. ...and its gonna be there this year again!
tommo900 2 years ago
great plane it is amazing it started as a comet 4 in the 1960s
tonyphillips1984 2 years ago
Actually, it was even earlier than that. The 1st comet flew in 1949, although this was based on the comet 4 airframe that flew in about 1958 i think
vorn29 2 years ago
Stunning Aircraft
Robsta1974 2 years ago
i love this plane, i'm dooing w/ex at woodford now. the reason it crashed was americas fault. who'd have guessed it?
slipersox 3 years ago
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Robsta1974 3 years ago
Will it ever see operational service? Shades of the AEW.
rockinroy555 3 years ago
Shame we are not getting enough of them:(
EDS01475634763 3 years ago