Two B-2 Spirit stealth bombers arrive in UK

[Terpe]

Even if the U.S. Air Force has selected three bases for B-2 operations outside the U.S. (RAF Fairford, in UK, Diego Garcia and Andersen AFB at Guam), overseas deployments of the Spirit stealth strategic bombers are quite unusual.

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[Terpe]

[les_taxi]

Obviously they don't appear very stealthy as we know they are here!

[Terpe]

Obviously they don't appear very stealthy as we know they are here!

That's the whole point

[les_taxi]

That's the whole point

Eh? If they were stealthy we would not know they are here.

Admittedly not my best attempt at humour.

[Terpe]

Eh? If they were stealthy we would not know they are here.

Admittedly not my best attempt at humour.

Sorry Les, if I misunderstood the humour

[Terpe]

Great looking flying machines

[les_taxi]

Sorry Les, if I misunderstood the humour

I don't even get my own Humour sometimes

[grahamw48]

Interesting stuff !

Thanks for posting.

[Dedworth]

Not stealth but I remember in 1999 at about 2.30am getting woken up by 2 x B1B Lancer bombers after the ATC let them do a high speed pass over a deserted Heathrow on their way back to Fairford after bombing Belgrade. Awesome noise

[Michael Parnham]

Beautiful!

[stevewool]

Amazing, I wonder what they may look like in another 20 years

[Dedworth]

I wonder if someone is going to get a clump ?

[Dedworth]

Iraq formally asks US to launch air strikes against rebels

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-midd...t-27905849#%22

Time to bomb the vermin back into the stone age

[les_taxi]

I'm all for that, but what a useless bloody Army they have got.

First sign of trouble and they leg it!

There again fairly close to Italy I suppose

[Dedworth]

Thank goodness Uncle Sam still has the means to apply the big stick. Let's hope they have the will to do so on this occasion.

This is how the Royal Navy lined up in 1914 !:-


18 modern dreadnoughts and a further 6 under construction
10 battle cruisers
20 town cruisers
15 scout cruisers
200 destroyers
29 battleships

A further 150 cruisers that had been built before 1907

[grahamw48]

I believe we also had 5 and 1/2 million in uniform in WW2.