Blood for the Baron!

Start of this vid has become quite popular in certain quarters of late, but was just the Finns putting together a few exercises in early 2014, they knew things were going to get hot thanks to cocky uninvited RUAF Ilyushins gamboling around post-Crimea and a few other uninvited tourists trying to buy ...

Crikey that was close!

Free to those who can afford it, very expensive to those who can't.

... Tho' perhaps not quite as creative in the bedwetting department as the MIG31 turning up unannounced on a Norwegian F16 a few years ago ...

USAF FA18 shot down a SAF Su22 a few hours ago. Wonder where ...

The original was deleted here's some footage from inside one of the B1Bs two days ago.

Russians decided - almost by return of post - that a rare Baltic outing for the Blackjacks along with some of the usual other kit was just the tonic for Finnish and Swedish airforces today...

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DCXshEPW0AAcSEl.jpg

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DCXsjNZXsAA-XfA.jpg ...

For the first time ever USAF have B1s, B2s and B52s in Europe for Baltic exercises.

.... Of course the Russians intercepted the first B52s and B1s to make the Livonian run in daylight.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DB5GG0MXcAAIzeu.jpg

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35th anniversaries of B Squadron getting on the trucks at Ascension for Operation Mikado [one way trip to Rio Gallegos - operation scrubbed] and then dropping into the South Atlantic at night for recovery by Royal Navy (HMS Plymouth?) must have passed in last 72 hours.

Ditto a certain one-way-trip ...

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Great pic

Chopper wrote:Yowzer, I'll be off to see that one. I do think it needs this theme though;

Martin Shaw may appreciate the irony. Or not.

And so the story ends, if not for the second trailer for Six Days released last week: note how many elements and atmospherics perhaps influenced by the original reenactment, from ubiquitous Transit vans, to Regents Park barracks, the main distraction charge in stairwell, even bandy legged random on ...

Part 5:

Doesn't feature the local constabulary stopping :attack: dragging the final terrorist found in the garden back into the burning building, but, then, not many versions of the story do. He's living in Peckham now, enjoying life.

Job done. ENDEX.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIDfjIZC9fc ...