Military helicopters, buzzing around low.
04 December 2011, 02:40 AM
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Military helicopters, buzzing around low.
The last few days I`ve had 2 military helicopters buzzing around doing what only can be described as hide and seek/tag.
They were around earlier and were so low you could see the pilots eye colour, and have just been back now 02:10am. They spend 2-3 mins buzzing around chasing each other and then bugger off.
Thought they were the police chopper till I realised there was 2 of them, and they were going far too fast. They sometimes hover and appear to search, but they soon disappear again.
If they come back during the day and I`m quick enough I`ll get a pic, but just think they are training for something. As my house is under the flightpath of the usual Chinook, and Hercules, and once an Apache, but these are doing something strange.
They were around earlier and were so low you could see the pilots eye colour, and have just been back now 02:10am. They spend 2-3 mins buzzing around chasing each other and then bugger off.
Thought they were the police chopper till I realised there was 2 of them, and they were going far too fast. They sometimes hover and appear to search, but they soon disappear again.
If they come back during the day and I`m quick enough I`ll get a pic, but just think they are training for something. As my house is under the flightpath of the usual Chinook, and Hercules, and once an Apache, but these are doing something strange.
04 December 2011, 02:59 AM
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If they were all on a 4 hour notice they would all be sitting at an RAF base with their kit 
The RAF train for low level flying just like everyone else, they dont really need that "extra" practice, they get enough in the combat situations they fly now.
Its probably a training exercise or pilot training, and anyway, we have seen how modern warfare goes, big planes blow the crap out of stuff first before any ground troops go in.
Tony
The RAF train for low level flying just like everyone else, they dont really need that "extra" practice, they get enough in the combat situations they fly now.
Its probably a training exercise or pilot training, and anyway, we have seen how modern warfare goes, big planes blow the crap out of stuff first before any ground troops go in.
Tony
04 December 2011, 03:09 AM
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If they were all on a 4 hour notice they would all be sitting at an RAF base with their kit
The RAF train for low level flying just like everyone else, they dont really need that "extra" practice, they get enough in the combat situations they fly now.
Its probably a training exercise or pilot training, and anyway, we have seen how modern warfare goes, big planes blow the crap out of stuff first before any ground troops go in.
Tony
The RAF train for low level flying just like everyone else, they dont really need that "extra" practice, they get enough in the combat situations they fly now.
Its probably a training exercise or pilot training, and anyway, we have seen how modern warfare goes, big planes blow the crap out of stuff first before any ground troops go in.
Tony
04 December 2011, 03:20 AM
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i grow up on RAF base's around the world as my grandad who raised me was in the RAF strange thing is didn't see him in a uniform till the day he retired and he will not tell me why that was or what he did but he did get called back in about 3 years after he left as a consultant but thats all i know and he thinks we're going to be fighting a 3rn war very soon
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I use to be spearhead for the British Army the only people who wouldnt be in this situation would be SF, anything green would be sitting on the tarmac getting all the load manifests sorted on 4 hours notice to move (I was hit with a 24hr notice for Rwanda, at 12 hours they were off to Brize, at 4 hours they were loaded and waiting to go), unfortunately they took someone else, not a happy bunny 
Instead they sent me to Bosnia
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the only people who wouldnt be in this situation would be SF, anything green would be sitting on the tarmac getting all the load manifests sorted on 4 hours notice to move (I was hit with a 24hr notice for Rwanda, at 12 hours they were off to Brize, at 4 hours they were loaded and waiting to go), unfortunately they took someone else, not a happy bunny Instead they sent me to Bosnia
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04 December 2011, 03:53 AM
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Damn didnt work, but look up on facebook, 30 sig regt on a swan, past and present, look through the photo's, page 9, the "announcement"
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To go back to the choppers they are probably looking for a place to land to come and talk to you Jimbob.
They know you are on Scoobynet and as the last week has proved SN NSR is where all the country's militray intelligence re. the impending Iran invasion is being published so they will want to ask you what you know and what they are to do next
They know you are on Scoobynet and as the last week has proved SN NSR is where all the country's militray intelligence re. the impending Iran invasion is being published so they will want to ask you what you know and what they are to do next
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The last few days I`ve had 2 military helicopters buzzing around doing what only can be described as hide and seek/tag.
They were around earlier and were so low you could see the pilots eye colour, and have just been back now 02:10am. They spend 2-3 mins buzzing around chasing each other and then bugger off.
Thought they were the police chopper till I realised there was 2 of them, and they were going far too fast. They sometimes hover and appear to search, but they soon disappear again.
If they come back during the day and I`m quick enough I`ll get a pic, but just think they are training for something. As my house is under the flightpath of the usual Chinook, and Hercules, and once an Apache, but these are doing something strange.
They were around earlier and were so low you could see the pilots eye colour, and have just been back now 02:10am. They spend 2-3 mins buzzing around chasing each other and then bugger off.
Thought they were the police chopper till I realised there was 2 of them, and they were going far too fast. They sometimes hover and appear to search, but they soon disappear again.
If they come back during the day and I`m quick enough I`ll get a pic, but just think they are training for something. As my house is under the flightpath of the usual Chinook, and Hercules, and once an Apache, but these are doing something strange.
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04 December 2011, 01:15 PM
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To go back to the choppers they are probably looking for a place to land to come and talk to you Jimbob.
They know you are on Scoobynet and as the last week has proved SN NSR is where all the country's militray intelligence re. the impending Iran invasion is being published so they will want to ask you what you know and what they are to do next
They know you are on Scoobynet and as the last week has proved SN NSR is where all the country's militray intelligence re. the impending Iran invasion is being published so they will want to ask you what you know and what they are to do next
04 December 2011, 01:15 PM
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Billy Liar used to "get it off" by sending our troops to some war or other and getting so many of them killed. Wonder if this lot are the same!
Orwell regarded it as an essential act!
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Orwell regarded it as an essential act!
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04 December 2011, 03:08 PM
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Can I assume you mean that the fictional bureaucracy supporting the entity Orwell created used the slogan war is peace as a rhetorical device to control the Proles, Les? The mouth-breathers are clearly baffled enough.
04 December 2011, 03:22 PM
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Why have we got so little, i thought we had one of the greater army forces as a nation?
04 December 2011, 03:53 PM
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Great quality due to tradition, but we're only a small island, and one without the strategic and economic power we once had. Still one of the highest defence spenders in the world though.
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I've typed it up, its from just before the first gulf war kicked off
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT FROM 30 SIGS
The men of 30 Sigs Regt would like it to be clearly announced, recorded and understood by all concerned that it was 30 Sigs personnel who were the first army types to be deployed in this theatre and not. as erroneously reported in some of the UK national press, the chaps from 7th Armd. 30 Sigs personnel, being a modern bunch at the sharp end of technology, appreciate fully that their own kit lacks the glamour and macho appeal that gladdens the uneducated eye and fully sympathises with the tankies in their thirst for a share of the limelight. However, and purely in the interests of historical accuracy, they feel compelled to point out that, sad though it may be for the Image of the average tankdriver, the Signallers got here first. Should the tankies wish to ensure that they come in the first 3 in future races to the trouble spots of the world, the Signallers may be able to accept the attachment of a tank or two.
The men of 30 Sigs Regt would like it to be clearly announced, recorded and understood by all concerned that it was 30 Sigs personnel who were the first army types to be deployed in this theatre and not. as erroneously reported in some of the UK national press, the chaps from 7th Armd. 30 Sigs personnel, being a modern bunch at the sharp end of technology, appreciate fully that their own kit lacks the glamour and macho appeal that gladdens the uneducated eye and fully sympathises with the tankies in their thirst for a share of the limelight. However, and purely in the interests of historical accuracy, they feel compelled to point out that, sad though it may be for the Image of the average tankdriver, the Signallers got here first. Should the tankies wish to ensure that they come in the first 3 in future races to the trouble spots of the world, the Signallers may be able to accept the attachment of a tank or two.
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04 December 2011, 07:35 PM
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It was myself, an RAF Comms Engineer and a Royal Navy loggie that sat at the airport in Tripoli with the Embassy staff and spear-headed the evacuation of UK nationals from Libya; after that I sat in the international evacuation coordination cell as 2 i/c to a Signals Lt Col - it's not all about the warriors gods is it