Nimrod MRA4 - A Kind of Magic

Footage of the new BAe Nimrod MRA4's first flight set to the famous Queen track...

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Autos & Vehicles

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• Nimrod
• RAF
• Queen
• Music
• BAe
• Plane

[tonightwefly]

£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!

[Penfold011082]

@tonightwefly

The RC-135's are to replace the Nimrod R1's at Waddington - the MRA4 program has no replacement.

[adrianwainer]

Nimrod MRA4, the most advanced counter insurgency / anti-asymmetric warfare aircraft currently in production, put it in to service. Nimrod MRA4, whispering death to al-Qaeda.

[adrianwainer]

David Cameron's Defense policy, a seat for himself, his family and other Conservative and Lib Dem big wigs and their families on a requisitioned British Airways Boeing 777 departing London Heathrow destination Bermuda, before the first Iranian ten kiloton yield range nuke detonates over London. Put the Nimrod MRA4 in to service, keep the Harrier GR9 in service, maintain RAF Lossiemouth and RAF Kinloss as operational military airbases and kick Mr Cameron out of 10 Downing Street.

[XV255]

@JeanCadoret No it is a fact you only have to check the history books, I am apologising for nothing that should be down to clown and bliar who sold us out.

[JeanCadoret]

@Wildboared: HAHAHAHAHA! The old 'you sold off all our gold' BS! I think you've been reading the Daily Fail too much!

Brainwashed Coalition-apologists like you are totally incapable of thinking for yourselves: living proof that Cameron's spin machine CAN fool some of the people all of the time...

[vorn29]

@adrianwainer Yeah real whispering death.They must be crapping themselves at the thought of it. 3 old boeings and 9 billion to the British taxpayer later they must think Christmas has come early in the caves in Afghanistan. Fucking shit country the UK is. Fucked over by the yanks and tory shitheads. They knew they were never going to use it. Fuck the UK being skint. . Don`t tell me about a fucking recession when they wasted billions on this pile of shit

[Superbatrobin]

@3ISAMAGICNUMBR Shame this one never made Al-Qaeda say that!

[WellBoared]

@GarryHarriman SO you were a Painter and Doper??? As a former NCO with 8 years on MR2 and 1 1/2 on MRa4 I can say it was never going to work. Why are all other aircraft sold for scrap yet the MRa4 was cut up on site? Because it saved waste of space from losing money and public embarresment when it failed to do the job it was meant to.......

[Robsta1974]

It was that good the secret agencies wanted it for 2012 olympics. Only to be told no way , it was safe within 3 days of SDSR and its now pretty certain BAE called it as it did not work and would cost them a lot of penalties. so in return a deal was done with BAE to sacrafice Nimrod for keeeping Marham open perhaps , Typhoon contracts or perhaps the sale of the last batch of typhoons to Oman. MRA4 was never a winner in the market

[3ISAMAGICNUMBR]

I gotta say...the British make great looking airplanes.