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On Thursday 21 February, two Typhoons were tasked with an attack on a cave in northern Iraq where a group of terrorists had been spotted, some ten miles east of Tal Afar. Coalition surveillance aircraft carefully checked the surrounding countryside for any civilians who might be placed at risk, before the Typhoons used two Paveway IVs to collapse the entrance to the cave.

A Reaper provided close air support to the Syrian Democratic Forces as they fought Daesh around Baghuz Fawqani on Saturday 2 March. The Reaper’s crew observed a rocket-propelled grenade being fired from a building, and shortly afterwards a small group of armed terrorists emerged. They were tracked by the Reaper, whilst careful checks were made that no SDF or otherwise unidentified individuals were too close to them, then successfully engaged with a single Hellfire missile.

Royal Air Force aircraft, alongside other coalition partners, have continued to provide close air support to the Syrian Democratic Forces as they attacked the last remaining Daesh stronghold in eastern Syria, at Baghuz Fawqani. Typhoon, Reaper and Sentinel aircraft have flown daily reconnaissance missions, with the Typhoons and Reapers ready to engage targets if requested by the SDF. On Tuesday 12 March, the SDF came into contact with Daesh in dispersed positions, and two Typhoon FGR4s conducted a series of three attacks, using a total of four Paveway IV guided bombs, which successfully silenced the terrorists’ fire. In addition, a large number of vehicles had been abandoned in the area of the fighting, and one large truck in their midst was identified as booby-trapped with an improvised explosive device. The Typhoons were able to pick out and safely destroy this truck-bomb with a single Brimstone 2 missile.

Typhoons conducted a further attack on Sunday 17 March when the SDF came under fire at close range from a building held by Daesh in Baghuz Fawqani. The proximity of the SDF to the target required particular careful targeting by the Typhoons’ pilots, but a single Paveway IV demolished the terrorist position with great accuracy.

The crew of a Reaper observed two terrorists, who were attempting to conceal their weapons under heavy cloaks, taking up position in a trench at Baghuz Fawqani on Monday 18 March, and successfully engaged them with a Hellfire missile. Typhoons were also patrolling the area, and they conducted an attack which struck four dispersed Daesh positions simultaneously with Paveway IVs.
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Una foto de la configuración con la que estarían seguramente volando [en Oriente Medio]:

uno/dos AMRAAM

Orel escribió:

Una foto de la configuración con la que estarían seguramente volando [en Oriente Medio]:

Dos depósitos externos, pod ventral, dos Paveway IV una en cada ala, dos Brimstone uno en cada ala, dos ASRAAM y uno/dos AMRAAM. Lo llamativo: lo bien armado que va en Aire-Aire. Para que veamos que no pueden fiarse.

Saludos

jupiter escribió:Algún país ha usado ya operativamente el Meteor??

Lo del concurso suizo es perder el tiempo y dinero.
Por prestaciones ganará el F35, por retornos industriales el Rafale y por precio el Grippen. Los militares elegirán o el F35 o el Rafale y los políticos comprarán lo que les salga de los webos y las finanzas permitan.

Orel escribió:Igual que nosotros en Libia '11 no hicimos AS, sólo AA, y no tenía que ver con exponerse o no. Cada país con sus condicionantes...
De todos modos, el Estado Islámico apenas tiene capacidad SAM ni desde luego cazas, así que la "exposición" es muy baja.

Algún país ha usado ya operativamente el Meteor??

jupiter escribió:Algún país ha usado ya operativamente el Meteor??

Lo del concurso suizo es perder el tiempo y dinero.
Por prestaciones ganará el F35, por retornos industriales el Rafale y por precio el Grippen. Los militares elegirán o el F35 o el Rafale y los políticos comprarán lo que les salga de los webos y las finanzas permitan.

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Complex Weapons – The aim of the Complex Weapons Pipeline is to deliver an affordable and adaptable Complex Weapons programme that protects sovereignty, ensures Operational Advantage, contributes to prosperity and supports exports. The programme provides a way of working that maximises modularity, reuse of equipment and commonality across the Services with a consequent reduction in costs. During the year, a number of notable delivery milestones were achieved including the successful firing of a Common Anti-air Modular Missile as part of the Ground Based Air Defence programme and the delivery of Brimstone 2 missiles to the RAF, allowing Full Operating Capability to be declared. Additionally, First of Class firings of Sea Ceptor from HMS ARGYLL and the first firings of ASRAAM Block 4 by F-35 were made. Typhoon made the first Guided Firings of ASRAAM Block 6 and salvo firings of Meteor, and Qualification Firings of the Lightweight Multi-Role Missile were carried out.
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Increased longer-term risks to value for money.

Deferring projects can lead to higher costs in later years and undermine strategic planning. We have previously reported, for example, on how short-term decisions made when procuring new vessels increased the likelihood of spare parts not being available when required, while delays in carrying out essential maintenance across the defence estate leads to increased costs.23 In response to affordability challenges within the Equipment Plan, the Department took a number of measures to make savings. These included delaying by two years its programme to introduce new remotely piloted aircraft (Protector), resulting in an estimated £160 million cost increase, and delaying some Typhoon training by one year, which increased costs by £6 million. We have also reported on how the Department delayed by two years the development of a replacement for the Astute-class submarine. This enabled it to remove £1.2 billion of costs, and reduced support costs from £590 million to £430 million over the project lifetime, which may have a longer-term impact on production and costs. It can be difficult to distinguish between savings made specifically as part of this process and those made routinely by TLBs.
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champi escribió:Y ya que estamos, pongo como curiosidad los patrocinios que recibe el Typhoon display team: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.u ... eb_PDF.pdf