In a few years time Denmark is going to choose a new fighter. We have SAAB JAS-39NG, F-18 E/F, F-35 JSF in the contest. Recently it was decided that also EF Typhoon should be among the contesters. Eventhough I am a fan of SAAB, I really hope we will by the Typhoon. For me it is the most capable aircraft (And after all we actually had a danish testpilot, Chris Worning on the german EF program in Mancing). Greetings from Copenhagen.
So relieved to see that they are all wearing the latest in Health & Safety reflective work vests....but where are the traffic cones and divertionwarning signs....and the "loud noise" warnings......the DOT will be citing them for that.
This "photo-op" drill doesn't inspire the same level of aerial defence confidence that the old Lightening scrambles - or even the Phantom scrambles used to give. Man they WERE quick back in the 70's
@lanunselat So does that mean that the RAF need not train and prepare o the same level then? The reason that the scramble was effective back then is because the attitude was "Live drill" not "Do a scramble but don't take it seriously becase the former potential enemy is busy doing airshows"!!
@tomburley funding is easy back during the cold war. Pilots fly more often and scrambled more often since soviets regualrly send it's bombers over north sea. Today, there's cut back everywhere to save cost and since education and healthcare are vote winning tools but not defence, so we see the military bore the brunt of the cutbacks.
@lanunselat Yeah - thanks for the neat and tidy explanation as to why the military suffers every time inept government tries to dig itself out of the hole it continually digs for itself. If only all the money spent on Healthcare and Education actually improved either service. It seems that nowadays everyone wants & expects the slowly shrinking working population to kep funding ever increasing government spending - especially on those that opt not to work. Great system isn't it?
Finally, a fellow lincolnshire. I'm not for from Coningsby (kind of) as im in Scotter! Yer i'm seen them before, but thanks for the upclose vid. Thanks for the upload!
Hellenic Air-force does it yet again. They have just won all the combat exercise in the latest NATO military exercises held in Spain last week April, 2011.This is on top of the other big win which was RED FLAG 2008 where they destroyed US Air-force in a kill ratio of 18:3. The so called best air-force and its top-guns, was their first loss and never had it been so bad.Further more the best NATO Pilot for the third time was Charalambos Eskioglou. Hellenic Airforce leaves the rest for dust!
it is not the pilot who exactly drop all those cards, it is done by one of the so-called crew who runs in front and cross run him later...Watch closely !!
@imaplaystationfanboy more nukes? yes nice rusty ones. troops?? no. guns? no. nothing you said does Russia have more than American other than their crap nukes. The end.
@TheMrbigcheese Russia won't attack us, but they're always probing our airspace to the north.
I remember hearing a story from a Tornado pilot from Lossiemouth. They used to fly alongside the Russian bombers and hold up page 3 from the Sun newspaper. One day the Russians replied by holding up some pictures of tractors!!
@PrivateCustard hahaha that actually made laugh :D i heard that the reason they probe our airspace is to test our aerial responses, i highly doubt they will actually invade us, why would they? we aren't threatening them and if they do it would spark world war 3, who in the right mind wants to do that?!
What is all this if Russia attacks the UK we are screwed and stuff stemming from? For one the UK has Nuclear subs, which would then counter nuke the offender, (there is allways one nuclear sub hidden in the deep) ensuring MAD, Mutually Assured Destuction, which is why WW3 has not happend..... for a couple of years anyway :)
apparently UK US alliance is bible prophecy lol..if your religious..its the last world power....only one more dominant world power from the east will oppose them....and apparently they wont really clash but turn attention to something else much bigger ....according to certain christians...
@imaplaystationfanboy ruyssia usa britain china france noe of them will ever square off in war. way to much money to be made selling weapons to other little countries and let them scrap it out. besides they would nuke any country that was invading them. then the other guy nukes back we all die. No money in that.
@imaplaystationfanboy Dont worry, Russia will never attack UK. Just recently Russia Praised Royal Navy Vets with Russian Medals for there Bravy and there contribution to helping Russia in WW2. Were OK with Russia.
From the amount of cuts and different camera angles in this video, I'm guessing it isn't real...nice to know the lads are literally ready to drop everything in that situation though!
.............in the simulated aerial battles F-15 which allow to start French Rafale, the Eurofighter and new F-22 against Russian Su-35. The result: The Rafale Su-35 was equal. The Eurofighter reached a firing relation from 4.5 to 1 - for every shot Eurofighter 4,5 Su-35 went on an average to ground. F-22 reached even a superiority from 10 to 1 - in the clear difference to F-15, they Russian Su-35 with 1 to 1.3 put under was.
Why dont they show the excellent Swedish/British fighter the Gripen! Its a British/Swedish project nowadays and the Empire testpilots school bought 8 of them?
The F-35's stealth is touted as a big advantage, but Kemp says that "stealth alone is not the answer to survivability." The Gripen's speed and maneuverability, Kemp says, as well as "superior defensive technology," make it much tougher to shoot down than the F-35.
@nolifemerc They're probably the latest M.O.D. notes on cost savings and recommendations on how to scramble fuel efficiently with minimum ware and tear on the aircraft!!!
suggest melchersson and mr true check the grippen site and then "media relations,news,2008" where there is an article about the ETPS operating Gripens...Swedish ones from Swedish bases...not British ones from British bases
ETPS also use aircraft loaned from RAF frontline squadrons if required..the Gripen is the only one not operated in the UK at present....ETPS also has exchange programmes with the schools in the US and France
The School bought 8-10 aircrafts so I presume they will be based in the UK! I guess this learning period at place in Sweden, were necessary since you guy´s didn´t have a Gripen simulator!
And i'm portuguese!! :-) Portuguese Air Force operate F-16 right now, and i know the plane very well. Like i said, it is a mid-life fighter, we are already thinkin of a replacement. We didn't choose the gripen or typhoon because we have an agreement with US, i'm talkin about Lajes AB in the Azores. Politics......
I cant wait for the new updated version of Saab Gripen! Gripen(Griffin) is extremly underated! "Gripen is slightly better than the F16!" Our old J 35 Draken (Dragon) were comparable with the F-16 and we took it out of service for 20 years ago! F16is a joke!
Agree with beatnikful! You British are a part of the Gripen project why dont you take more interrests in it? You guys got 10 of these excellent fighters at the Empire test-pilots school and you should really get them into service in RAF!
There are NO Gripens at the ETPS at Boscombe Down...very occasional visitors maybe but none based there..BaE pilots may be assigned to SAAB in Sweden but again there are no Gripens based in the UK
and mrtrue if you continue reading the Wikipedia article it says that UK ETPS pilots fly the Gripen from Linkoping...that is Linkoping in Sweden not Linkoping in the UK
This is a headline from a British aircraft news paper: UK's Empire Test Pilots' School completes first Gripen flying campaign for 2005! Just search for the damn information instead of just assume things!!!
I'm not assuming anything mrtrue...a Grippen was douing trials work at Boscome Down in 2005 but there as far as I know been no Grippen visiting there this year and there certainly is'nt any based there so I suggest you "search for the damn information" yourself instead of "just assume things"
sorry but you are totally wrong there are NO REPEAT NO Grippens based at Qinentiq at Boscombe Down..the last visit of a Grippen to the base was approximately a year or more ago...I don't know what you uncle thinks he saw but it is'nt a Grippen...or is he actually in Sweden not the UK
I think the aircraft are loaned from the Swedish Airforce for the two courses a year...for the limited use it would not be cost effective to purchase them
If we have all 200 aircraft on standby for the russians whos gonna give air support to the guys in afganistan and 200 on standby sat their doing nothing while the Russians plan never to invade is a waste of money and talent.
There is always four QRA on standby 24/7 365 days a year fuelled and fully armed at the moment 2 at RAF Coningsby and 2 at Raf Leuchars as soon as 2 are scrambled another 2 are fuelled and armed so that they are always 4 on standby.
The Russians have Communism on their side too!....urgh...Communism. We'll have no shared wealth and overalls on this side of Europe thank you very much! lol
more people doing it the faster it will be plus safer it will be so does it really matter the uk government can afford to have 20 people launching one plane doesn't really matter
every day? no it doesn't :\. as part of 101 sqn - we go up whenever it happens, and i can't even remember the last one... and i had to work xmas day because of it.
were any aircraft scrabled over manchester on christmas because me and my stepdad(EXRAF Pilot) saw 3 red lights in the sky, and from his aircraft knowledge they wern aircraft, they were in a triangle formation and very accurate, moved accross the sky and vanished, 2 mins later a 4th light came past moved at same speed and vanished in the same place, me my mum n stepdad saw them and my uncle at the other side of manchester, im just wondering if you guys got any callouts to anything like that
yeah there deffinatly not aircraft and they were also spaooted above the A6 in stockport a week before we saw them, anyway i was just wondering if u had any callouts to anything like it, cheers anyway.
also my stepdad was telling me about the QRA being launched to the north sea because some russian 'bear' bombers we picked up on radar. QRA's F3's soon to be replaced by the Typhoon
I'm reading yet another typing war that has nothing at all to do with the video -which is presumably why we post comments here - about the video -you know - the fighter jet?...
Yet, on virtually every video I've checked out from music, to movies, to fighter jets, there is some tit for tat bickering over -what, perceived errors? A 'wrong' statement?
If everyone actually responded to a poster named maureenOWW,who has proudly announced he has a penis, we'd all be suckers. Let us all ignore them now
The Russians used to practice frequent bombing runs into our airspace until they ran out of money...Now they're funding has come back... I was up at Leeming last week and speaking to a pilot there and apparently the practice runs have started again!!!
Maureen, you sound like a right arrogant bitch. Cuntflap is a terrible insult... infact, I think the only reason you're sad enough to come on You Tube and put people half your age down is because you're pissed off at the fact no one's wanted to stick their cock in your flakey cuntflaps since you were his age.
it was shortly after the 7/7 attacks, it was on bbc news that there is going to be a typhoon fully loaded sat waiting at the end of a runway 24/7, i dont think it said where abouts because of security reasons but you would think its probably in lincolnshire somewhere but hey just a guess, peace.
Its not at RAG Coningsby, think its 69Squadron thats going to Aghanistan next year.. Oh well theres a development squadron there to that tests new weapons. How I know? My Grand parents live 20minutes from the base so we go there sometimes :) 3Weeks last week!
The Russians arent going to bomb us now there testing us its like if a kid in a playground trips another one and the other kid doesnt do anything the kid will do it again then a punch then two then god knows what we have done is when the russians come into our air space we show a sign of resistance and what we were basically saying is you dont scare us its Britains way of showing strength
Hmm, I meant 1980's MINDSET, you dozy fuckwit. You know, the cold war?
2) WHY would russia waste time and money bombing his house??? Are you insane? What possible gain could they get, apart from global thermonuclear war??? (which they would lose)
Hmm, I meant 1980's MINDSET, you dozy fuckwit. You know, the cold war?
2) WHY would russia waste time and money bombing his house??? Are you insane? What possible gain could they get, apart from global thermonuclear war??? (which they would lose)
If you meant that, why didn't you say that? Don't go trying to change the argument to suit you, it's a sign of a bad loser :p
Oh, and as for the second point? You might ask what the Germans got from the Blitz in WW2. What possible gain...? But they still did it! Point is the Russians are testing us, if we don't respond, who's to say they won't start a war?
Oh, and Russian wouldn't lose Global Thermonuclear War - everyone would.
I did say that, I assumed even a child would understand what I meant, you truly vapid fucknut.
The germans carried out the Blitz as both propoganda and psychological warfare. Are you too stupid to look in a book and find this out for yourself???
The Russians are not 'testing us' they are carrying out simple propoganda in order to make the russian people vote for them in elections (which of course worked, if you actually watch any international news).
No, you didn't say that. And if I, an English A level student couldn't see what you meant, what chance has a child? Don't delude yourself, you're clutching at straws.
And how would doing this earn Putin votes? If you watched the international news, as you suggest you do, you would know Putin ordered these bomber patrols. How could it earn him votes when he wasn't even running in the election? And even if it is just propaganda, why shouldn't we respond?
LOL an A level english student? That means you ARE a child, you halfwit. I have 2 English degrees - you know, from a 'University'. The reason you didn't understand what I meant is because you are too young to remember the cold war, again, because you are a child. I grew up in the 1970's, dear.
His protege won the election, and they used film of these bomber missions in their party political broadcasts. Or are you disagreeing with the BBC, CNN, and every other political analyst in the world.
You have 2 English degrees, you're 30 odd and you're still immature enough to go picking fights and insulting people on Youtube? Jesus. If you went to University and have 2 English degrees, and yet 'fucknut' and 'halfwit' are the best insults you can come up with, daddy wasted a lot of money.
In a few years time Denmark is going to choose a new fighter. We have SAAB JAS-39NG, F-18 E/F, F-35 JSF in the contest. Recently it was decided that also EF Typhoon should be among the contesters. Eventhough I am a fan of SAAB, I really hope we will by the Typhoon. For me it is the most capable aircraft (And after all we actually had a danish testpilot, Chris Worning on the german EF program in Mancing). Greetings from Copenhagen.
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Bahhh ha ha ha!
Enderwiggan1 3 months ago
So relieved to see that they are all wearing the latest in Health & Safety reflective work vests....but where are the traffic cones and divertionwarning signs....and the "loud noise" warnings......the DOT will be citing them for that.
tomburley 3 months ago
The Fod' ers at play.
AVMamfortas 6 months ago
ok...let's practice this again. Hang onto the flight plan, man. And ground crew...spend some time in the gym so you can pull the chocks faster?
CRsBeem 6 months ago
This "photo-op" drill doesn't inspire the same level of aerial defence confidence that the old Lightening scrambles - or even the Phantom scrambles used to give. Man they WERE quick back in the 70's
tomburley 8 months ago 2
@tomburley because the sovs are really flying back then. today, the sovs are mostly doing airshow.
lanunselat 3 months ago
@lanunselat So does that mean that the RAF need not train and prepare o the same level then? The reason that the scramble was effective back then is because the attitude was "Live drill" not "Do a scramble but don't take it seriously becase the former potential enemy is busy doing airshows"!!
tomburley 3 months ago
@tomburley funding is easy back during the cold war. Pilots fly more often and scrambled more often since soviets regualrly send it's bombers over north sea. Today, there's cut back everywhere to save cost and since education and healthcare are vote winning tools but not defence, so we see the military bore the brunt of the cutbacks.
lanunselat 3 months ago
@lanunselat Yeah - thanks for the neat and tidy explanation as to why the military suffers every time inept government tries to dig itself out of the hole it continually digs for itself. If only all the money spent on Healthcare and Education actually improved either service. It seems that nowadays everyone wants & expects the slowly shrinking working population to kep funding ever increasing government spending - especially on those that opt not to work. Great system isn't it?
tomburley 3 months ago
What is that green in the jet ?
bluediver2 9 months ago
@bluediver2 its the pilots head-up display
CCFCsheep 9 months ago
@bluediver2 it's the HUD (heads up display)
naaaf1 7 months ago
She's so beautiful and lethal. Looks like a shark to me. What a masterpiece of engineering.
Tomkatje 9 months ago
Finally, a fellow lincolnshire. I'm not for from Coningsby (kind of) as im in Scotter! Yer i'm seen them before, but thanks for the upclose vid. Thanks for the upload!
MrKoala18 9 months ago
"Honey I've said a million times back the jet in to the garage! How hard is this?"
tlages 9 months ago
Hellenic Air-force does it yet again. They have just won all the combat exercise in the latest NATO military exercises held in Spain last week April, 2011.This is on top of the other big win which was RED FLAG 2008 where they destroyed US Air-force in a kill ratio of 18:3. The so called best air-force and its top-guns, was their first loss and never had it been so bad.Further more the best NATO Pilot for the third time was Charalambos Eskioglou. Hellenic Airforce leaves the rest for dust!
aek1928 10 months ago
wow they had it in the air in like 30 seconds!
SolidGoldKalashnikov 11 months ago
it is not the pilot who exactly drop all those cards, it is done by one of the so-called crew who runs in front and cross run him later...Watch closely !!
valentinorakesh 11 months ago
@imaplaystationfanboy more nukes? yes nice rusty ones. troops?? no. guns? no. nothing you said does Russia have more than American other than their crap nukes. The end.
OlderG0ds 1 year ago
@imaplaystationfanboy Still the fact you think Russia has overtaken America in the arms race?? I can't help but laugh
OlderG0ds 1 year ago
@lockyuk2000 Braver than your pussy dumb arse will ever be my friend :)
bazman85 1 year ago
You never put rubber chocks touching tyres. Learnt that in 1983 on the Tornado's. Only 24 years before this video was made !!!!!!!!!!!
MrCagivaman 1 year ago
After 20 years in the RAF, all I can say is worst QRA in history. Our lives in their hands
MrCagivaman 1 year ago
@hoobler we have aroud 300 in action but an estimate of 2000 to be made, now that the torandos and harriers are out of action.
weebroon2 1 year ago
how many typhoons do we have now?
Hoobler94 1 year ago
Russia attacking the UK? you COD fanboys need to get out of your bedrooms and look into modern day politics, freakin' idiots.
TheMrbigcheese 1 year ago
@TheMrbigcheese Russia won't attack us, but they're always probing our airspace to the north.
I remember hearing a story from a Tornado pilot from Lossiemouth. They used to fly alongside the Russian bombers and hold up page 3 from the Sun newspaper. One day the Russians replied by holding up some pictures of tractors!!
PrivateCustard 1 year ago 3
@PrivateCustard hahaha that actually made laugh :D i heard that the reason they probe our airspace is to test our aerial responses, i highly doubt they will actually invade us, why would they? we aren't threatening them and if they do it would spark world war 3, who in the right mind wants to do that?!
TheMrbigcheese 1 year ago
What is all this if Russia attacks the UK we are screwed and stuff stemming from? For one the UK has Nuclear subs, which would then counter nuke the offender, (there is allways one nuclear sub hidden in the deep) ensuring MAD, Mutually Assured Destuction, which is why WW3 has not happend..... for a couple of years anyway :)
bazman85 1 year ago
apparently UK US alliance is bible prophecy lol..if your religious..its the last world power....only one more dominant world power from the east will oppose them....and apparently they wont really clash but turn attention to something else much bigger ....according to certain christians...
blademanx 1 year ago
"possible nuclear war"....fuck I dropped my shopping list
TheePilot100 1 year ago
@imaplaystationfanboy
overtaken America ..?
OlderG0ds 1 year ago
@imaplaystationfanboy ruyssia usa britain china france noe of them will ever square off in war. way to much money to be made selling weapons to other little countries and let them scrap it out. besides they would nuke any country that was invading them. then the other guy nukes back we all die. No money in that.
123456789mischief 1 year ago
@imaplaystationfanboy Dont worry, Russia will never attack UK. Just recently Russia Praised Royal Navy Vets with Russian Medals for there Bravy and there contribution to helping Russia in WW2. Were OK with Russia.
HL5IHarrier 1 year ago
Too damn slow and the jock dropped his papers n "scrambled" to pick them up! LOL!
thar777 1 year ago
hi i dont know if anyone wud be able to help me im 6ft3 am i too tall to pilot one of these fighter jets ?
1xISKETCHIx1 1 year ago
its obviously set up and acted. but its showing you how they would react in a real emergancy :)
sambo734 1 year ago
From the amount of cuts and different camera angles in this video, I'm guessing it isn't real...nice to know the lads are literally ready to drop everything in that situation though!
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.............in the simulated aerial battles F-15 which allow to start French Rafale, the Eurofighter and new F-22 against Russian Su-35. The result: The Rafale Su-35 was equal. The Eurofighter reached a firing relation from 4.5 to 1 - for every shot Eurofighter 4,5 Su-35 went on an average to ground. F-22 reached even a superiority from 10 to 1 - in the clear difference to F-15, they Russian Su-35 with 1 to 1.3 put under was.
DieKerze1981 1 year ago
He drops all of his documents! Haha.
mrrmancunian 2 years ago
I saw that ,I bet he feels a right spud!!
lordofbore 2 years ago
I bet! Especially after going through that selection process, I bet even the RAF feel like spuds for letting the bugger through!
Imagine if that was a real scramble, we'd all be fucked.
mrrmancunian 2 years ago
Ha, SAC(T) Buntin!!! Stood around with your hands in your pockets!! And.... i never knew you could run!!!
leejones2405 2 years ago
I think it is all set up because when they all run out they all start in a line from the same place....but I dont really know
Wells1955ATC 2 years ago
Why dont they show the excellent Swedish/British fighter the Gripen! Its a British/Swedish project nowadays and the Empire testpilots school bought 8 of them?
mrtrue1000 2 years ago
Not sure but I think my cousin Dale is in this film, not seen him for a while so not sure, if so hope your well mate.
ragg597 2 years ago
hahahaha
MatriXinismE 2 years ago
I saw this back in 2007, still makes me laugh how the pilot drops his papers at 0.12 seconds. You can hear his co-workers laugh.
townclose 2 years ago 18
The F-35's stealth is touted as a big advantage, but Kemp says that "stealth alone is not the answer to survivability." The Gripen's speed and maneuverability, Kemp says, as well as "superior defensive technology," make it much tougher to shoot down than the F-35.
mrtrue1000 2 years ago
bullshit with a capital B
NJRocks281 2 years ago
I was only refering to an aircraft-developer and former British test-pilot!
mrtrue1000 2 years ago
i dnt like f-35's chances vs any 4th gen fighter!!! waste of money
terza45 2 years ago
time will tell
NJRocks281 2 years ago
@townclose what papers are those, instructions, stik back nose up stick forward nose.....
nolifemerc 4 months ago
@nolifemerc They're probably the latest M.O.D. notes on cost savings and recommendations on how to scramble fuel efficiently with minimum ware and tear on the aircraft!!!
tomburley 3 months ago
is this real? Or just a drill type thing
TheHusky9 2 years ago
suggest melchersson and mr true check the grippen site and then "media relations,news,2008" where there is an article about the ETPS operating Gripens...Swedish ones from Swedish bases...not British ones from British bases
bayleafdog 2 years ago
The ETPS uses the following types of aircraft: * Aérospatiale Gazelle * Agusta A109E * BAC One-Eleven * BAe Hawk * Beagle Basset * Dassault-Breguet/Dornier Alpha Jet * Hawker Hunter *No longer used* * Hawker Siddeley Andover * Mil Mi-17 * North American Harvard * Saab JAS 39 Gripen * Short Tucano * Westland Lynx * Westland Sea King
Melchersson 2 years ago
ETPS also use aircraft loaned from RAF frontline squadrons if required..the Gripen is the only one not operated in the UK at present....ETPS also has exchange programmes with the schools in the US and France
bayleafdog 2 years ago
The School bought 8-10 aircrafts so I presume they will be based in the UK! I guess this learning period at place in Sweden, were necessary since you guy´s didn´t have a Gripen simulator!
Melchersson 2 years ago
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bayleafdog 2 years ago
And by the way I´m Swedish/British with a Swedish mother! So I can be objective in this matter.
Beatnikful 2 years ago
And i'm portuguese!! :-) Portuguese Air Force operate F-16 right now, and i know the plane very well. Like i said, it is a mid-life fighter, we are already thinkin of a replacement. We didn't choose the gripen or typhoon because we have an agreement with US, i'm talkin about Lajes AB in the Azores. Politics......
JoaoCosta85 2 years ago
I cant wait for the new updated version of Saab Gripen! Gripen(Griffin) is extremly underated! "Gripen is slightly better than the F16!" Our old J 35 Draken (Dragon) were comparable with the F-16 and we took it out of service for 20 years ago! F16is a joke!
Beatnikful 2 years ago
Well F-16 is a mid life plane, you right but not a joke at all!!! The know blocks are good enough.
Cheers
JoaoCosta85 2 years ago
Yeah your right! But when I hear that Gripen is "Slightly" better than the F-16 I got pissed!!
Beatnikful 2 years ago
Agree with beatnikful! You British are a part of the Gripen project why dont you take more interrests in it? You guys got 10 of these excellent fighters at the Empire test-pilots school and you should really get them into service in RAF!
mrtrue1000 2 years ago
There are NO Gripens at the ETPS at Boscombe Down...very occasional visitors maybe but none based there..BaE pilots may be assigned to SAAB in Sweden but again there are no Gripens based in the UK
bayleafdog 2 years ago
It says so in the Wikipidea and this Mr Pike who´s a pilot or works in the RAF here on youtube claimed there were 10 gripens there!
mrtrue1000 2 years ago
and mrtrue if you continue reading the Wikipedia article it says that UK ETPS pilots fly the Gripen from Linkoping...that is Linkoping in Sweden not Linkoping in the UK
bayleafdog 2 years ago
But I hope you know realize that you have Gripen
In the UK?
Melchersson 2 years ago
No I don't because we have'nt...the UK pilots go to Sweden to fly Gripens..there are none here in the UK...
bayleafdog 2 years ago
I am sorry! I did get to engaged and might have said something offensive?
Melchersson 2 years ago
This is a headline from a British aircraft news paper: UK's Empire Test Pilots' School completes first Gripen flying campaign for 2005! Just search for the damn information instead of just assume things!!!
mrtrue1000 2 years ago
I'm not assuming anything mrtrue...a Grippen was douing trials work at Boscome Down in 2005 but there as far as I know been no Grippen visiting there this year and there certainly is'nt any based there so I suggest you "search for the damn information" yourself instead of "just assume things"
bayleafdog 2 years ago
There are Gripens at the test pilots school! My uncle works there and yeas, why shouldn´t there be? We help to manufacture the planes!
Melchersson 2 years ago
sorry but you are totally wrong there are NO REPEAT NO Grippens based at Qinentiq at Boscombe Down..the last visit of a Grippen to the base was approximately a year or more ago...I don't know what you uncle thinks he saw but it is'nt a Grippen...or is he actually in Sweden not the UK
bayleafdog 2 years ago
I am a dual citizen of Sweden and England I might have misunderstood? He told me the School were about to purchase the Gripen!
Melchersson 2 years ago
I think the aircraft are loaned from the Swedish Airforce for the two courses a year...for the limited use it would not be cost effective to purchase them
bayleafdog 2 years ago
England has a Gripen as a half way trainer between the hawk and EF2000
dj8work 2 years ago
I know that they bought 8 of them but someone said they had them based in Sweden? It says in the Wikipedia that the School got 8 Gripens!
Melchersson 2 years ago
Some minor parts of Gripens are of UK manufacture Melchersson but they are actually manufactured (i.e. put together) in Sweden not the UK
bayleafdog 2 years ago
If we have all 200 aircraft on standby for the russians whos gonna give air support to the guys in afganistan and 200 on standby sat their doing nothing while the Russians plan never to invade is a waste of money and talent.
NielsShoe 2 years ago
I would love to work on the eurofighter
SgTBasten 2 years ago
There is always four QRA on standby 24/7 365 days a year fuelled and fully armed at the moment 2 at RAF Coningsby and 2 at Raf Leuchars as soon as 2 are scrambled another 2 are fuelled and armed so that they are always 4 on standby.
chuckcmg 2 years ago
theres always 4 on standby?, what happens then if the russians send all of there 3000 aircraft to attack the uk at once?????
PEARCE1992UK 2 years ago
Fair point but at the moment Nato have a lot more serviceable aircraft than the russian and I think it's
not the russian we should be watching.
chuckcmg 2 years ago
there should be atleast 200 on standby at all times, not 4 and who do you think we should be watching then, china?
PEARCE1992UK 2 years ago
By the time they're noticed on radar we'd have contacted allied european countries such as France to help out.
me351 2 years ago
we should be watching them a few month ago the RAF had to scramble a few planes to get them out of our airspace
reddevil10101 2 years ago
The Russians have Communism on their side too!....urgh...Communism. We'll have no shared wealth and overalls on this side of Europe thank you very much! lol
james50000 2 years ago
Russia are not a commy country any more, china is (god knows how because we trade with them) and so is cuba
reddevil10101 2 years ago
he should just be able to take off straight on......
tobseNo1 2 years ago
more people doing it the faster it will be plus safer it will be so does it really matter the uk government can afford to have 20 people launching one plane doesn't really matter
4ever0892 2 years ago
Well im alone whith a F-16. Always. Im the supervisor, man A and B.
gummess 3 years ago
How many does it take to lanch a Tyhoon?? I work alone on my viper, also on a QRS. This video is heavily edited. Rated one star
gummess 3 years ago
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calvin396 3 years ago
PMSL at him dropping his FRCs..That video is heavily edited, how about we see a video of exactly how long it takes from klaxxon to taxi?
scoop2004 3 years ago
lol at 00:14 :) ^^
rafpilot1 3 years ago
lol luckily the jet engine are not in function... :)
TakumiFujiwara80 3 years ago
see anyone try to come into british air space they will have them to fight off
rhys21kipling 3 years ago
SOMEONE TALK TO ME
why cant i see the video Ib
AllendeJuarez 3 years ago
good video but i think it was a practice. lol
kop3333 3 years ago
Oh Dear!
Icepacalapse 3 years ago
Bet another russian came in to british airspace, thats why this scramble is happening!
JVson001 3 years ago
it happens almost every day
bombers come on over on patrol
but we tell them to fuck off LOL
jammybizzle666 3 years ago
every day? no it doesn't :\. as part of 101 sqn - we go up whenever it happens, and i can't even remember the last one... and i had to work xmas day because of it.
fieldsofgold07 3 years ago
lucky you
shoot them up when its your turn
dont want any of those inferior bear bombers over here
jammybizzle666 3 years ago
were any aircraft scrabled over manchester on christmas because me and my stepdad(EXRAF Pilot) saw 3 red lights in the sky, and from his aircraft knowledge they wern aircraft, they were in a triangle formation and very accurate, moved accross the sky and vanished, 2 mins later a 4th light came past moved at same speed and vanished in the same place, me my mum n stepdad saw them and my uncle at the other side of manchester, im just wondering if you guys got any callouts to anything like that
liamr685 3 years ago
nope, definitely not. the idea is the jets go up before they get anywhere near the uk. can't help with the lights i'm afraid.
fieldsofgold07 3 years ago
yeah there deffinatly not aircraft and they were also spaooted above the A6 in stockport a week before we saw them, anyway i was just wondering if u had any callouts to anything like it, cheers anyway.
liamr685 3 years ago
also my stepdad was telling me about the QRA being launched to the north sea because some russian 'bear' bombers we picked up on radar. QRA's F3's soon to be replaced by the Typhoon
liamr685 3 years ago
no problem.
yeah, whenever the qra is launched, it's normally the russians, so it will be over the north sea, and it's always the bears.
... also, the typhoons are already the qra capability. have been for a while now. f3's will be out of service soon.
fieldsofgold07 3 years ago
tally ho ,chaps!!!
bogwarriorG 3 years ago
Bloody hell. More frikin Tupolevs.
Hamdaman101 3 years ago
And now, my comment on the video;
Nice jet. Gotta get me one of those.
bigbadassjohnson 3 years ago
a nice jt indeed, ill be flying in 1 soon
Lucas9422 3 years ago
I'm reading yet another typing war that has nothing at all to do with the video -which is presumably why we post comments here - about the video -you know - the fighter jet?...
Yet, on virtually every video I've checked out from music, to movies, to fighter jets, there is some tit for tat bickering over -what, perceived errors? A 'wrong' statement?
If everyone actually responded to a poster named maureenOWW,who has proudly announced he has a penis, we'd all be suckers. Let us all ignore them now
bigbadassjohnson 3 years ago
haha the guy dropping his papers is pretty funny..he was probably like "SHIT! SHIT!"
State1Trooper 3 years ago
lol look @ all the FOD!!!
54spiritedwill54 3 years ago
my dad used to work there coz he got posted then he got posted to waddington
boselectaboy2 3 years ago
lol the guy that dropped the paper is this real or just a drill?
skiingmad101 3 years ago
o my got dropping mission note is well bad lol. i feel real sorry for that dude. but hey he is a pilot so respect.
bleyland629 3 years ago 3
oh dear!!!
Burdpoo 3 years ago
russians would rather pick on georgians....they dont like britain cuz of the american alliance...they wont do anythin to britain.
blademanx 3 years ago 13
The Russians used to practice frequent bombing runs into our airspace until they ran out of money...Now they're funding has come back... I was up at Leeming last week and speaking to a pilot there and apparently the practice runs have started again!!!
latounga1 3 years ago
@blademanx same as they wouldnt do anything to the US because of the British alliance..
ROONEY101993 1 year ago
a typhoon is not sat at the end of a runway 24/7 there is a typhoon sat on standby, but that isnt new there has always been a fighter sat on standby.
mclarenrock 3 years ago 3
Maureen, you sound like a right arrogant bitch. Cuntflap is a terrible insult... infact, I think the only reason you're sad enough to come on You Tube and put people half your age down is because you're pissed off at the fact no one's wanted to stick their cock in your flakey cuntflaps since you were his age.
liof16 3 years ago 2
That would be extremely presient and concise of you, if it weren't for the fact I have a fucking penis.
But nice try dear.
maureenOWW 3 years ago
ffs I spelled prescient wrong, please feel free to lampoon me for the next 5 hours or so. Cuntflap.
maureenOWW 3 years ago
peeps we did scramble one after a russian bomber entered our terrorty and then we led it back
i ws shit scared
annoyingdevil24 3 years ago
Haha, why did they use that take when that little cunt drops all his gash on the floor when he runs to the spaceship?
sapperhutch 3 years ago
Hahaha, that was a pilot, I pissing myself laughing with him dropping all his mission notes and the other paperwork.
sikkre2006 3 years ago
who knows but it makes me want 2 join even more 4 some reason!
liverpoolfc555 3 years ago
pride? lol
annoyingdevil24 3 years ago
Is this a genuine scramble or a practice rehearsal?
ForeverTottenham 3 years ago
Practise... no missiles...
Highway123456789 3 years ago
You sure, mate? I was told that there is a sidewinder port side forward fuselage.
ForeverTottenham 3 years ago
practice, u know there is a typhoon sat waiting like that manned and fully loaded 24/7 waiting at the end of a runway
bazman85 3 years ago
I didn't know that, mate. That would be at RAF Coningsby?
ForeverTottenham 3 years ago
it was shortly after the 7/7 attacks, it was on bbc news that there is going to be a typhoon fully loaded sat waiting at the end of a runway 24/7, i dont think it said where abouts because of security reasons but you would think its probably in lincolnshire somewhere but hey just a guess, peace.
bazman85 3 years ago
Thanks for the reply, mate.
ForeverTottenham 3 years ago
Its not at RAG Coningsby, think its 69Squadron thats going to Aghanistan next year.. Oh well theres a development squadron there to that tests new weapons. How I know? My Grand parents live 20minutes from the base so we go there sometimes :) 3Weeks last week!
NOFX944 3 years ago
In Response To The Nuclear War Stuff, The Typhoon Is NOT A Nuclear Weapons Aircraft.
RAFcalum 3 years ago
Bahh.... This jet is amazing... but its just a deadly machine designed to kill people.... I wouldnt aspire to fly it.....
bloodydea00 3 years ago
i marsheda scramble start at work exeriecnce =D
benjihender 3 years ago
uh uh tht eurofighter omg uuhhhhh...jst came ;)
killkidnumber2 3 years ago
Hahahahah the pilot drops loads of papers
Typoon721 3 years ago
The cold war wasn't that long ago, and Russia isn't the only threat that could come from the air...
Never be caught with your pants down when you got the resources sitting there to be trained and excercised.
Dosedmonkey 3 years ago
The Russians arent going to bomb us now there testing us its like if a kid in a playground trips another one and the other kid doesnt do anything the kid will do it again then a punch then two then god knows what we have done is when the russians come into our air space we show a sign of resistance and what we were basically saying is you dont scare us its Britains way of showing strength
frankie310792 3 years ago
they could hit us at any moment because for one they have the troops two they have the weapons and three they don't really like us
mirlin235 3 years ago
ye man them russians keep comin over uninvited we should start shootin them down lol
blademanx 3 years ago 2
staged and quite unimpressive
thar777 3 years ago
What do you want them to do, set off some fireworks and dance the fandango?
maureenOWW 3 years ago 2
Forget the paper work thats for office boys !.
3 F QRA top sqn.
jaguarfarewellday 3 years ago
thats great
but can you stop doing it at 10 oclock at night and then flying over my house please
cheers
MARK
polycopy 4 years ago
You got a choice here. You can have this, or you can have some Russian bomber blow your house up.
Dumbass.
AntC2535 3 years ago
Yes, because the russians really want to blow up his house. That's really in their strategic interests.
You insane 1980's fuckwit.
maureenOWW 3 years ago
1) I was born in 1990, so that rules out the '1980's fuckwit' bit.
2)If we don't challenge the Russian bombers that keep testing our airspace, who's to say they won't bomb his house?
Knob off, 'maureen'
AntC2535 3 years ago
Hmm, I meant 1980's MINDSET, you dozy fuckwit. You know, the cold war?
2) WHY would russia waste time and money bombing his house??? Are you insane? What possible gain could they get, apart from global thermonuclear war??? (which they would lose)
maureenOWW 3 years ago
Hmm, I meant 1980's MINDSET, you dozy fuckwit. You know, the cold war?
2) WHY would russia waste time and money bombing his house??? Are you insane? What possible gain could they get, apart from global thermonuclear war??? (which they would lose)
maureenOWW 3 years ago
If you meant that, why didn't you say that? Don't go trying to change the argument to suit you, it's a sign of a bad loser :p
Oh, and as for the second point? You might ask what the Germans got from the Blitz in WW2. What possible gain...? But they still did it! Point is the Russians are testing us, if we don't respond, who's to say they won't start a war?
Oh, and Russian wouldn't lose Global Thermonuclear War - everyone would.
AntC2535 3 years ago
I did say that, I assumed even a child would understand what I meant, you truly vapid fucknut.
The germans carried out the Blitz as both propoganda and psychological warfare. Are you too stupid to look in a book and find this out for yourself???
The Russians are not 'testing us' they are carrying out simple propoganda in order to make the russian people vote for them in elections (which of course worked, if you actually watch any international news).
maureenOWW 3 years ago
Ah Maureen. Such a sore loser aren't you?
No, you didn't say that. And if I, an English A level student couldn't see what you meant, what chance has a child? Don't delude yourself, you're clutching at straws.
And how would doing this earn Putin votes? If you watched the international news, as you suggest you do, you would know Putin ordered these bomber patrols. How could it earn him votes when he wasn't even running in the election? And even if it is just propaganda, why shouldn't we respond?
AntC2535 3 years ago
LOL an A level english student? That means you ARE a child, you halfwit. I have 2 English degrees - you know, from a 'University'. The reason you didn't understand what I meant is because you are too young to remember the cold war, again, because you are a child. I grew up in the 1970's, dear.
His protege won the election, and they used film of these bomber missions in their party political broadcasts. Or are you disagreeing with the BBC, CNN, and every other political analyst in the world.
maureenOWW 3 years ago
You have 2 English degrees, you're 30 odd and you're still immature enough to go picking fights and insulting people on Youtube? Jesus. If you went to University and have 2 English degrees, and yet 'fucknut' and 'halfwit' are the best insults you can come up with, daddy wasted a lot of money.
AntC2535 3 years ago 2
Daddy? I paid for myself, you insane nutjob. I can come up with better insults, how about 'cuntflap'?
So bascially you've been proved wrong in everything you said, and so you attempt personal insults to try and get out of it.
We can all see you're a thick cocklord, please just be quiet and I'll stop cyber-raping you, okay son?
Nighty-Night.
maureenOWW 3 years ago
global thermonuclear war....key word, global, we would all die
YaDad23 3 years ago
Actually Ant, the Germans got a lot from the Blitz. Theres a thing called, wait for it, psychological warfare.
tomspen100 3 years ago
Try 1960's, buit realistically Russinas never wanted to blow anybody's house, didn't think they were suicidal.
sikkre2006 3 years ago 4