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demoleft

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Tue Aug-21-07 03:37 PM
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UK Typhoons shadow Russian bomber

Source: BBC

Two new RAF Typhoon jets shadowed a Russian bomber heading for Britain, the Ministry of Defence has said.

The jets were scrambled on Friday 17 August to identify the Russian aircraft, which turned back before it reached UK skies.

The MoD said: "RAF Typhoons from Numbers 3(F) and XI Squadrons launched to shadow a Russian Bear-H aircraft over the North Atlantic Ocean."

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Russia's president, Vladimir Putin, has recently resumed the Soviet-era practice of sending bomber aircraft on long-range flights.

Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6957589.stm

Please tell me I misread the news.

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Captain Hilts

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Tue Aug-21-07 03:38 PM
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1. This is confusing, the "Typhoon" is also a Russian sub. nt

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Kagemusha

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Tue Aug-21-07 03:45 PM
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2. But the RAF doesn't fly those.

Edited on Tue Aug-21-07 03:45 PM by Kagemusha

You're right though, usually NATO names stuff to not conflict with codenames for enemy weapons.

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GliderGuider

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Tue Aug-21-07 03:54 PM
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3. It used to fly these though

I assume it wasn't one of these either, though...

This WWII Typhoon is what the Eurofighter Typhoon is named after.

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Kagemusha

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Tue Aug-21-07 03:56 PM
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4. Ah, so the one who picked the codename for the sub is in the wrong.

Someone should've thought of this and assumed the name might be used again... but missed it because it was a WWII plane. Or something.

Ah well.

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Hobarticus

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Tue Aug-21-07 04:38 PM
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8. Oh, it only gets better...

"Typhoon" is the NATO designation for a particular missile sub. The official Russian designation for this sub is Project 941 and is named "Akula", meaning "shark".

But Akula is also used as a NATO designator for a Soviet attack submarine, Project 971, named "Shchuka" which means "pike".

Sheesh.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhoon_class_submarine

I love goofy useless information.

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Kagemusha

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Tue Aug-21-07 05:00 PM
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9. Well that's not so strange. It's having two designations on the one NATO side.

That's the odd part. They usually do a better job of keeping things separate.

Of course if you try to track names in both languages it gets very confusing, but apparently some people enjoy that. :) And I admit, I am one of them.

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Posteritatis

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Tue Aug-21-07 06:58 PM
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10. If the RAF flew those I'd be very pleasantly surprised. ;) (nt)

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Tue Aug-21-07 04:08 PM
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5. "I'm not sayin' we wouldn't get our hair mussed..."

"...but no more than 10 to 20 million killed...depending on the breaks."

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damntexdem

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Tue Aug-21-07 04:26 PM
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6. Must be global warming:

now we have big storms stalking airplanes. ;-)

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Karenina

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Tue Aug-21-07 04:32 PM
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7. Mensch!

:spray:

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