Typhoons go supersonic

[ecsrobin]

On sky news now, police investigating "loud bang" in Kent, believed to be related to RAF activity.

Followed by: 2 RAF typhoons have escorted a Russian built Latvian cargo plane into stanstead.

Edited to add the typhoons reported to have got to Mach 1.2 and escorted YL-RAA which is an antonov AN-26B cargo aircraft owned by RAF-Avia]

Edited by ecsrobin on Wednesday 29th October 17:54

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Yertis said:

belleair302 said:

he was over Birmingham in under 18 mins.

I wouldn't be too surprised if, in the not too distant future, we'll see a QRA based further south permanently, as during the Olympics.

I don't see a requirement for them to be any closer they can make london in 6 minutes once airbourne.

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djc206 said:

ecsrobin said:

I don't see a requirement for them to be any closer they can make london in 6 minutes once airbourne.

I do. London is very close to the Southern and Eastern edges of the London FIR which means very little notice/time.

I don't, having previously worked in a QRA role I don't see the need. The aircraft can get to the target in good time no problem. you do have one possible situation that could result in an incident prior to an intercept but I'm not the daily mail / sun so will keep that off the Internet or for others to guess.