Who asked the British to 'protect' our airspace from the Russians or anyone else ?

Captain Chaos

jimgoose wrote: »

Dublin is lest than three hundred miles from London. The range of a Eurofighter Typhoon is about 2,300 miles. Were the RAF to confine itself to UK airspace it would cause more and more serious problems than stupid arguments on the Internet. The current Gentleman's Agreement makes a lot of sense tactically and politically.

Not really on the range, the Eurofighter has about a 600 mile combat radius. If it has to scramble rapidly it will be using afterburners more which burns fuel very very fast. The Eurofighter can go through all it's fuel in about 15mins in full afterburner at sea top level.

2,300 miles is for a straight line flight with 3 external tanks and a mid flight refuling and no external weapons.

jimgoose

Captain Chaos wrote: »

Not really on the range, the Eurofighter has about a 600 mile combat radius. If it has to scramble rapidly it will be using afterburners more which burns fuel very very fast. The Eurofighter can go through all it's fuel in about 15mins in full afterburner at sea top level.

2,300 miles is for a straight line flight with 3 external tanks and a mid flight refuling and no external weapons.

Fair point, chief. But still'n'all, 600 miles vs. 200.

realitykeeper

darkpagandeath wrote: »

Yes, They would love to loose such a member from NATO. Talk about cutting the nose off despite the face. The British cold tell them to get stuffed and just work with the Americans. Invading Islands is notoriously hard. Unlike mainland Europe.

The EU is the EU. NATO is NATO. Two different organizations.

realitykeeper

Fratton Fred wrote: »

like where, the North Sea?

No, I was thinking more their North Atlantic territorial waters.

AndyBoBandy

I've posted this before on a similar thread,

lets just leave it to these guys;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kT7qrYi8R_M