Two Typhoon jets from Lossiemouth were carving up the skies off the coast of Scotland this morning.
The flight pattern shown is consistent with a training exercise that involves ‘Basic Fighter Manoeuvre’ skills. The complex patterns and the variation in the flight paths represent the pilots practising flight skills.
I've been told this is Basic Fighter Manoeuvre skills training.
— Lisa West (@LisaWest94) January 9, 2024
However, it’s important to note that actual dogfighting, in a real combat situation, would not be visible on publicly accessible flight tracking systems for operational security reasons. Moreover, dogfighting is less common in modern air operations due to advances in long-range air-to-air weaponry, which allows aircraft to engage from beyond visual range.
Flight Radar shows them doing this virtually every day in various parts of the Country. Down here in Cider Land we get them, Atlas, Cobham Falcons, the occasional F35, Voyager and a few American stuff flying overhead, watched 3 B52’s go over a few weeks back…. we had 3 Typhoons and a Voyager flying around for ages, end of last week. It’s all very entertaining, makes a change from all the Heckiloptors !
Heckiloptors? How strong is that cider? 😋
very !😄
I counted five Hawks over North Yorkshire a couple of hours ago… a bit unusual…
Could be from the joint RAF/Qatar Hawk T2 Sqn out of Leeming.
Usually from the Qatar training squadron. Recognised by being given designation of JAVLN on flight tracking apps.
Side topic, 18 more Rafale for Indonesia… Great News to start the year, we cross fingers for Indian navy negociations and hope their may be interest in Saoudia Arabia… 3 planes per month is the new production target and may soon be upgraded once more… Rafale F5 is on development…
Yeah France seems to really get behind their defence industry exports. I’m not going to get into an irrelevant Typhoon Rafale comparsion as they both capable and will hopfully never go head to head, so its a pointless comparision. But all these markets where up for grabs but we can’t seem to structure the right deal and financing or our partners block it. Good lesson for France on FCAS with Germany blocking sales to KSA.
Ho I don’t think France has enough fighters to oppose a major opponent and I praise the tremendous achievement in terms of cooperation that Typhoon has been. But you are right: blocking sales, especially for us is dreadfull. I hope we’ll never get embroiled in such an issue and it is not a sure thing yet. Wait and see… Germany in 20 years may very well not be in a position to refuse export markets. The timeline of the Scaf is not written in stones. To illustrate: will we spend 1 Bn on Scaf, 10 Bn will be on Rafale F5.
Mike Sutton an ex TYphoon squadron commander just wrote a good article in the Telegraph, found it in search of Typhoon news. Essentailly saying we need to wake up as air warfare is what will win or lose the next war.
Rishi Sunak and co have already lost it, unless someone else saves our arses.