DTN News - DEFENSE NEWS: Russian Bombers Intercepted Off Southern UK

DTN News - DEFENSE NEWS: Russian  Bombers Intercepted Off Southern UK

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - February 19, 2015: The UK Royal Air Force (RAF) scrambled two Eurofighter Typhoon fighter aircraft to intercept a pair of Russian bombers that were flying close to British airspace, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) announced on 19 February.

The Tupolev Tu-95 'Bear' strategic bombers were intercepted and shadowed by the Typhoons off the coast of Cornwall, in the southwest of the United Kingdom.

While no further details were available at the time of writing, it is more than likely that the Typhoons were launched from RAF Coningsby in eastern England, which is home to the UK's southern Quick Reaction Alert (QRA) force.

It is not believed that the Russian bombers violated UK airspace.

This incident comes at the same time as large scale Russian Air Force exercises involving more than 50 combat aircraft (mainly fighter types) are taking place near St Petersburg.

*Link for This article compiled by K. V. Seth from reliable sources Gareth Jennings, London - IHS Jane's Defence Weekly

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DTN News - U.K. DEFENSE NEWS: The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter - Simply A Penomenal Flying Machine

DTN News - U.K. DEFENSE NEWS: The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter - Simply A Penomenal Flying Machine

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - May 4, 2013: The smile on the face of the test pilot as he completed a successful vertical landing of Britain’s newest generation of fighter jets said it all. “This is simply a phenomenal flying machine.”

After all the bitter controversy over the Government’s decision to scrap the iconic Harrier jump jet in 2010 as part of the defence cuts, a team of Britain’s top gun fighter pilots has now arrived in the U.S. to begin testing its successor, the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.

Under the Government’s plans to build two new aircraft carriers equipped with state-of-the-art fighters, the role of the F-35 is crucial to the programme’s success. Like the Harrier before it, the F-35 has the ability to conduct vertical landings.

And last week at the American military’s Patuxent River naval air base in Maryland, I became the first British journalist to see one of the British pilots conducting a perfect test landing of an aircraft that is set to become one of Britain’s leading strike fighters for the next generation.

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DTN News - Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee: A Mounted Soldier Photograph His Colleagues During Dress Rehearsal Of The Royal Carriage Procession For Diamond Jubilee celebrations

DTN News - Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee: A Mounted Soldier Photograph His Colleagues During Dress Rehearsal Of The Royal Carriage Procession For Diamond Jubilee celebrations

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - June 1, 2012: A mounted soldier uses a mobile phone to photograph his colleagues as the military stage a dress rehearsal of the royal carriage procession from Westminster Hall to Buckingham Palace prior to the Diamond Jubilee celebrations this weekend on June 1, 2012 in London, England. 

Members of the armed forces lined the route of the procession along Whitehall and The Mall which Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II will travel in the 1902 state landau carriage during the Diamond Jubilee celebrations on June 5, 2012. (Photo - Getty)

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DTN News - Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee: A Mounted Soldier Yawns During Dress Rehearsal Of The Royal Carriage Procession For Diamond Jubilee celebrations

DTN News - Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee: A Mounted Soldier Yawns During Dress Rehearsal Of The Royal Carriage Procession For Diamond Jubilee celebrations

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - June 1, 2012: A mounted soldier yawns as the military stage a dress rehearsal of the royal carriage procession from Westminster Hall to Buckingham Palace prior to the Diamond Jubilee celebrations this weekend on June 1, 2012 in London, England. 

Members of the armed forces lined the route of the procession along Whitehall and The Mall which Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II will travel in the 1902 state landau carriage during the Diamond Jubilee celebrations on June 5, 2012. (Photo - Getty)

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DTN News - Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee: Queen's Guards During An Armed Forces Parade And Muster In Windsor England

DTN News - Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee: Queen's Guards During An Armed Forces Parade And Muster In Windsor England 

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - May 20, 2012: Queen's guards during an Armed Forces Parade and Muster in Windsor Castle on May 19, 2012 in Windsor, England. 

More than 2,500 troops, sailors, soldiers and Royal Air Force personnel from nearly all areas of the British Armed Forces were represented in the main body of the parade, together with a tri-Service Guard of Honour and six military bands.

Support for the monarchy in Britain is at its highest level for decades thanks to Queen Elizabeth II's diamond jubilee and last year's royal wedding, according to a new poll published on Saturday. (Photo - Getty)

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DTN News - Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee: Royal Air Force Fighter Planes Fly Past In Honour Of Britain's Queen Elizabeth II At Home Park In Windsor England

DTN News - Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee: Royal Air Force Fighter Planes Fly Past In Honour Of Britain's Queen Elizabeth II At Home Park In Windsor England 

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - May 20, 2012: British Royal Air Force fighter planes fly past in honour of Britain's Queen Elizabeth II (C) at Windsor Castle on May 19, 2012. 

More than 2,500 troops, sailors, soldiers and Royal Air Force personnel from nearly all areas of the British Armed Forces were represented in the main body of the parade, together with a tri-Service Guard of Honour and six military bands. 

Support for the monarchy in Britain is at its highest level for decades thanks to Queen Elizabeth II's diamond jubilee and last year's royal wedding, according to a new poll published on Saturday. (Photo - Getty)

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DTN News - BRITISH DEFENSE NEWS: The SDSR Is A Slash-And-Burn Campaign Plan - And It's Time The Government Admitted It

DTN News - BRITISH DEFENSE NEWS: The SDSR Is A Slash-And-Burn Campaign Plan - And It's Time The Government Admitted It

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - April 10, 2012: Four days ago I wrote, in respect of the Falkland Islands but with relevance to all British interests in the wider sense:

'The most effective deterrent of all, the true guardian of the Islands‘ security, is British clarity of vision, rational national defence policies, and consistently unambiguous and fudge-free ministerial communication. Those are issues this blog will examine during the next few months.'

Our theme for this, Rational Defence First, is linked to Effects-Based Financing (EBF) and to unwavering insistence on Integrity as the principal virtue of our national leaders. That integrity must include the willingness to admit incapacity, to acknowledge failure, and to surrender office to others better qualified in knowledge, experience and skill.

So where, amid what defence analysts recognise as a truly appalling political, economic and military situation, should we begin? If we are to concentrate on what has happened and will happen under the present coalition government (treating the dreadful years of Mr Brown’s stewardship, about which we can do little now, as merely the platform for future disasters we can still avert), then the obvious place to begin is this government’s Strategic Defence and Security Review, the SDSR (or, as it is known among defence analysts, the Suicidal Disarmament and Surrender Retreat).      

Fair-minded readers may ask whether the selection of such a defenceless target can be justifed? Perhaps it seems like bullying, but effectively the target has been chosen for us by the government’s own insistence that the SDSR will not be amended (even while ministers surreptitiously seek to do just that as the true horror of their position, and of the nation’s military weakness, sinks into the government’s addled corporate brain). 

Despite its condemnation by a host of defence experts, highly qualified by experience, especially by members of the United Kingdom National Defence Association (UKNDA), whose criticisms are countered solely by personal smears (but while the MoD employs a battalion of PR spin doctors they may as well be used, no?), and despite the mounting evidence of the SDSR’s irrelevance, the government refuses to budge from its obtuse stance.

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DTN News - DEFENSE NEWS: Red Flag Exercises Start Feb. 27

DTN News - DEFENSE NEWS: Red Flag Exercises Start Feb. 27

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - February 17, 2012: Red Flag Exercises are set to start again at Nellis Air Force Base.

The combat training exercises will be from February 27 through March 16. People in southern Nevada will see more military aircraft in the skies because of the exercises. It is organized by Nellis but is hosted in the Nevada Test and Training Range which is north of the city.

The 414th Combat Training Squadron is responsible for executing Red Flag. It is one of several advanced training programs through the base. During the exercises, more than 70 aircraft are scheduled to depart the base twice a day. The departures will happen around midday and again in the evening. Aircraft may remain in the air for up to eight hours.

There will be more than just personnel from Nellis Air Force Base. Airmen from around the country and the world are part of the training. People may be able to spot F-18s from the Royal Australian Air Force and GR-4s from the Royal Air Force of the United Kingdom.

All of the people involved will get extensive and valuable training in planning and executing a wide-variety of combat missions.

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DTN News - ROYAL FAMILY NEWS: Prince Harry Pays A Visit To Fellow Troops At RAF Honington

DTN News - ROYAL FAMILY NEWS: Prince Harry Pays A Visit To Fellow Troops At RAF Honington

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - February 10, 2012: Prince Harry chats to camouflaged armed forces comrades who look like they’ve just walked out of a swamp at a visit to RAF Honington today, near Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk.

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DTN News - ROYAL FAMILY NEWS: Prince Harry Pays A Visit To Fellow Troops At RAF Honington

DTN News - ROYAL FAMILY NEWS: Prince Harry Pays A Visit To Fellow Troops At RAF Honington

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - February 10, 2012: Prince Harry looks on during a visit to RAF Honington on February 10, 2012 in Honington, England. The Prince met Afghanistan veterans and was shown equipment such as sniper rifles, night vision systems and machine guns. (Photo - Getty)

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DTN News - U.K. DEFENSE NEWS: UK To Buy Another Boeing C-17 Military Plane

DTN News - U.K. DEFENSE NEWS: UK To Buy Another Boeing C-17 Military Plane

 (NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - February 9, 2012: The aircraft, which will cost £200m, will be based at RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire along with the other aircraft in the fleet which are operated by 99 Squadron. The multi-million pound C-17 aircraft can fly over 4,500 nautical miles, meaning it can fly directly from Helmand Province to the UK.

Defence Secretary Philip Hammond said:

"The C-17 has shown its worth in Afghanistan ensuring that our troops are given the fastest, most efficient passage home. It is a vastly impressive aircraft that can carry three Apache helicopters, or take a whole Chinook helicopter. This latest addition to the RAF fleet will further strengthen the vital airbridge between Britain and Afghanistan, ensuring critical deliveries are made to the front line.

“Buying equipment off-the-shelf allows us to quickly deliver equipment that our troops need on operations at best value prices for the tax payer and is a great example of the White Paper, announced last week, in action.”

As well as transporting troops and equipment, C-17s can also be converted rapidly to offer Intensive Care provision in support of the Aeromedical Airbridge. One aircraft is on standby 24-hours a day to fly seriously injured personnel back to the UK at short notice. The aircraft can also be deployed to help with humanitarian and disaster relief efforts around the world.

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