Royal Navy Pilots 'Become The Enemy' In The Skies Over Europe | Forces TV

It was a huge multinational military exercise that took place in 2016 in the skies and on sea across the Adriatic and Gulf. Exercise Albanian Lion saw Royal Navy pilots pay the enemy when they participated in dogfights with Italian fighter jets...
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[@deedee4531]

Shouldn't have gone and binned the harrier till it was replaced

[@fazedoutbrayden42]

Daley Wilk, I agree

[@GJ-qt2kk]

As much as I love the Harrier, it was getting old and it's maintenance became unsustainable. Sure the wait has been inconvenient but the F35B will be an upgrade from the Harrier in every regard.

[@markhepworth4804]

gladifly 👈😂

[@georgemorley1029]

George Jones With respect, I disagree with you. Takes three times the manpower to maintain a Tornado in the field and at base and they’re just as old and very expensive to run (burns heaps more fuel for starters) but they kept that flying, didn’t they? That’s why the crabs killed Harrier. SDSR came up and they protected their manpower holy cows. Played a blinder and saw the RN off massively. Who wants a capable little puff jet that doesn’t go WWOOOSH, that only needs one man to fly it, that’s cheap as chips, doesn’t need a stack of spanner wankers to run it, is first rate at CAS and makes the RN look good? Not the RAF, that’s for sure. How do I know? JFH from 2009-2012, and HEMC at Wittering. They could have kept Harrier going and they chose to sacrifice it and the thing that really stuck in my throat was watching Cameron repeat lies in Parliament about how tornado was the better, “more capable” platform. Then Libya happened and we had to fly the jets out from Italy at loads more cost than we could have done from the CVS. HNS is great when you can get it - for everything else, you need an aircraft carrier. We’ve done without them for far too long. F35B is a game changer for sure but we should have kept some kind of carrier presence and Harriers out to 2018-20. PS - ex QNLZ ship’s company too, so I know whereof I speak with that. There’s a strong argument to say we shouldn’t have pursued big carriers at the expense of the rest of the fleet. We’ve created a rod for our own backs to some extent, amazing though the ships are.

[@Andre-rt5hg]

No point, they won’t have exactly operated off the HMS ocean

[@ULSTERISBRITISH]

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[@nh6central]

Agreed, interesting stories from across all branches of UK defence.

[@donfelipe7510]

Good to see that our pilots are keeping their air to air dogfighting skills sharp. It was never the focus when air opposition over Iraq or Afghanistan was non-existent but you never know when there will be a problem with a country that does have its own air force like Argentina back in 1982. Back then Sea Harriers went up against Argentinian Mirages which were faster and meant for air combat. On paper it should have been the Mirages every time but the Royal Navy showed them what was what then too.

[@bulletproofkam7931]

I like these jets, it's by far the most amount of jets Britain has, 300 odd of them! But the new upgraded ones are great, we should weaponise them properly for reserve dutys.

[@geo.m1639]

Britain has about 20 Left now but they have lots of T2s

[@josedourado3747]

I saw a shiny black alphajet crash once, about 20 years ago

[@trewy5683]

Bloke sounds aussie

[@tomh4442]

TrewY South African

[@nakedlakedip57]

Struth cobber........

[@switzf1826]

I’ve visited rnas culdrose for an air festival day it was awesome

[@gundown__]

i've been able to sit in the 842 Hawk at culdrose

[@gundown__]

My father works for the 750 Naval Air Squadron which is based in culdrose.

[@switzf1826]

Samuel Thomas does that squadron fly helicopters because we met a pilot who few merlin helicopters for the search and rescue squadron part I forgot their official name

[@gundown__]

They fly The KingAir Avenger for observery training, no it's not a helicopter.

[@switzf1826]

Samuel Thomas nice

[@elizabetharmada5335]

Kailangan po bang sumirko-sirko ang aircraft para maiwasan ang missile from the ground??

[@reecevince2166]

Black arrows

[@deedee4531]

Does the royal Navy have a aircraft of better quality than that of a hawk trainer . where is the new fb35

[@BillNGX]

what on earth is an fb35?

[@torrinmcmillan1924]

as far as i know we have 14 in america right now that we are training on.

[@goofynose2520]

You realise it's a trainer jet right?

[@deedee4531]

Sorry F35B . FB to me will and always be fighter bomber

[@torrinmcmillan1924]

its fighter-35 then b is the variant mate. its a multi-role fighter like the eurofighter typhoon. The only instance i know of f being used on a bomber was the f117 nighthawk.

[@aislingmichaelaoneill1028]

Been on the pink gin again, have they? (LOL retired crab here.)

[@RidingWithOliHD]

Youd think we would have better jets than this.

[@dannycostello]

RidingWithOli HD they are training jet

[@SolidCat]

Training jet dummy

[@nibbles7178]

Harry Yates I think that was his point.

[@sichere]

Riding - These Jets are what the Red Arrows use and they are extremely good - I doubt many pilots would want to dogfight against an RAF Hawk for real.

[@Alucard-gt1zf]

Nibbles these are some of the best training jets in the world what are you on about?