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3️⃣ Quick Reaction Alert scrambles over the space of 6️⃣ days... it's been busy for #TeamLossie 💪
But we're always ready to scramble at a moment's notice, #SecuringTheSkies of the UK 🇬🇧
Today we intercepted & shadowed 2 Russian Tu-142 Bear Fs.
Here's the lowdown 👇
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But we're always ready to scramble at a moment's notice, #SecuringTheSkies of the UK 🇬🇧
Today we intercepted & shadowed 2 Russian Tu-142 Bear Fs.
Here's the lowdown 👇
1/#QRA
🚨 Quick Reaction Alert Typhoons were scrambled today from their temporary base at Leuchars Station in Fife.
✈️ This was in response to Russian military aircraft operating in international airspace, but within @NATO's Air Policing Area.
Here's what you need to know 👇
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✈️ This was in response to Russian military aircraft operating in international airspace, but within @NATO's Air Policing Area.
Here's what you need to know 👇
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🎯 Unidentified aircraft were tracked as they entered the northern @NATO Air Policing Area.
✈️ This was monitored by the Combined Air Operations Centre at Uedem, Germany.
⏳ In the UK, Control & Reporting Centres at @RAFBoulmer & @RAFScampton prepared to scramble...
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✈️ This was monitored by the Combined Air Operations Centre at Uedem, Germany.
⏳ In the UK, Control & Reporting Centres at @RAFBoulmer & @RAFScampton prepared to scramble...
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🚨 @Luftforsvaret, the Royal Norwegian Air Force, scrambled their Quick Reaction Alert F-16s to intercept and identify these aircraft.
🔍 They were visually identified as two Russian Tu-160 Blackjacks - long-range, supersonic bombers.
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🔍 They were visually identified as two Russian Tu-160 Blackjacks - long-range, supersonic bombers.
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#TeamLossie has had a busy Saturday!
🚨 We were scrambled earlier this morning as two Russian Tu-142 Bear F aircraft approached UK airspace. It was a rather unusual scramble for the @RoyalAirForce, and we're going to tell you all about it...
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🚨 We were scrambled earlier this morning as two Russian Tu-142 Bear F aircraft approached UK airspace. It was a rather unusual scramble for the @RoyalAirForce, and we're going to tell you all about it...
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❓ What happened?
📡 The Control & Reporting Centre at @RAFBoulmer was alerted to two tracks heading towards UK airspace. The team of surveillance operators were tracking the two aircraft at all times alongside their @NATO counterparts.
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📡 The Control & Reporting Centre at @RAFBoulmer was alerted to two tracks heading towards UK airspace. The team of surveillance operators were tracking the two aircraft at all times alongside their @NATO counterparts.
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All of this activity was coordinated through the @NATO Combined Air Operations Centre (known as a CAOC) in Uedem, Germany. They are also monitored by the National Air and Space Operations Centre (known as the NASOC) at
@RAFHighWycombe.
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@RAFHighWycombe.
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Yesterday #TeamLossie joined their colleagues from:
🇬🇧 @RoyalAirForce
🇺🇸 @USMC
🇳🇱 @Kon_Luchtmacht
🇺🇸 @USAirForce
for a large scale training event known as Exercise Point Blank.
Here's what you need to know in your #PhoonFriday #MegaThread!
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🇬🇧 @RoyalAirForce
🇺🇸 @USMC
🇳🇱 @Kon_Luchtmacht
🇺🇸 @USAirForce
for a large scale training event known as Exercise Point Blank.
Here's what you need to know in your #PhoonFriday #MegaThread!
1/ #PointBlank
📅 Exercise #PointBlank occurs several times a year, and enables the @RoyalAirForce and our @NATO allies to practise complex war-fighting scenarios involving more than 50 aircraft.
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🟥 #TeamLossie's role in this iteration of #PointBlank was to act as enemy forces, known as playing "Red Air".
We simulated the threats, tactics, and procedures of potential adversaries to create a realistic scenario for "Blue Air" - friendly forces.
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We simulated the threats, tactics, and procedures of potential adversaries to create a realistic scenario for "Blue Air" - friendly forces.
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Have you ever wondered how we know when unidentified aircraft approach UK airspace?
This week's #PhoonFriday is looking at some of the smaller @RoyalAirForce units dotted around Scotland that directly support our Quick Reaction Alert mission.
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This week's #PhoonFriday is looking at some of the smaller @RoyalAirForce units dotted around Scotland that directly support our Quick Reaction Alert mission.
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Did you know there are three Remote Radar Heads in Scotland?
📡 Benbecula, in the Outer Hebrides
📡 Saxa Vord, in the Shetlands
📡 Buchan, on the Aberdeenshire coast
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📡 Benbecula, in the Outer Hebrides
📡 Saxa Vord, in the Shetlands
📡 Buchan, on the Aberdeenshire coast
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In simplistic terms, radars send energy into the skies.
If the energy hits an object in the air such as an aircraft, it 'bounces back'.
The positions of all objects in the air are then plotted automatically and fed back into an overall picture for the UK.
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If the energy hits an object in the air such as an aircraft, it 'bounces back'.
The positions of all objects in the air are then plotted automatically and fed back into an overall picture for the UK.
#SupportingQRA 3/7
#OnThisDay in 1943, 617 Squadron departed @RAFScampton on Operation Chastise - an audacious bombing raid that is still talked about to this day.
Here's your Saturday #MegaThread to explain it all 👇
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Here's your Saturday #MegaThread to explain it all 👇
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Before we begin, Operation Chastise in numbers:
🕰️ Departed @RAFScampton @ 21:28, 16 May 1943
⚡ Primary targets: 3 dams in the Ruhr valley
✈️ 19 Avro Lancaster bombers
👨 133 airmen from 🇬🇧 Britain, 🇨🇦 Canada, 🇦🇺 Australia, 🇳🇿 New Zealand, 🇺🇸 United States
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🕰️ Departed @RAFScampton @ 21:28, 16 May 1943
⚡ Primary targets: 3 dams in the Ruhr valley
✈️ 19 Avro Lancaster bombers
👨 133 airmen from 🇬🇧 Britain, 🇨🇦 Canada, 🇦🇺 Australia, 🇳🇿 New Zealand, 🇺🇸 United States
#OpChastise 2/10
The plan was to destroy three dams in the Ruhr valley.
The Möhne, Eder and Sorpe dams were valuable sources of hydroelectric power in the German heartland, and it was thought that their destruction would cause significant disruption to war production.
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The Möhne, Eder and Sorpe dams were valuable sources of hydroelectric power in the German heartland, and it was thought that their destruction would cause significant disruption to war production.
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Exercise POINT BLANK concluded yesterday.
Here's a megathread with what you need to know 👇
Ex PB is an interoperability exercise between the @RoyalAirForce 🇬🇧 and @USAirForce 🇺🇸, involving a range of personnel in the air & on the ground a few times a year.
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Here's a megathread with what you need to know 👇
Ex PB is an interoperability exercise between the @RoyalAirForce 🇬🇧 and @USAirForce 🇺🇸, involving a range of personnel in the air & on the ground a few times a year.
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This was the 2nd Ex PB this year involving 50 different aircraft:
From the @RoyalAirForce:
✅@Eurofighter Typhoons from #TeamLossie & @RAFConingsby
✅@thef35 F-35Bs from @RAF_Marham
✅Air to Air Refuelling from @RAFBrizeNorton Voyagers
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From the @RoyalAirForce:
✅@Eurofighter Typhoons from #TeamLossie & @RAFConingsby
✅@thef35 F-35Bs from @RAF_Marham
✅Air to Air Refuelling from @RAFBrizeNorton Voyagers
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From the @RoyalAirForce & @NATO:
✅Airborne Surveillance & Tactical Control from the E-3D at @RAFWaddington & E-3A from @E3AComponent
✅Ground based Surveillance & Tactical Control from @RAFBoulmer (CRC Hotspur) and @RAFScampton (CRC Blackdog).
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✅Airborne Surveillance & Tactical Control from the E-3D at @RAFWaddington & E-3A from @E3AComponent
✅Ground based Surveillance & Tactical Control from @RAFBoulmer (CRC Hotspur) and @RAFScampton (CRC Blackdog).
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Quick Reaction Alert Typhoons from #TeamLossie, along with QRA from our @NATO allies launched today to intercept two Russian Tu-142 'BEAR-F' aircraft that approached the UK and NATO's area of interest.
Here's what you need to know in our QRA mega-thread 👇
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Here's what you need to know in our QRA mega-thread 👇
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🚨 Unidentified aircraft were detected as they approached @NATO's area of interest.
Norwegian QRA scrambled F-16s to intercept. They ID'd two Russian Tu-142s.
#TeamLossie QRA Typhoons scrambled soon after as the Tu-142s tracked south towards the North Sea.
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Norwegian QRA scrambled F-16s to intercept. They ID'd two Russian Tu-142s.
#TeamLossie QRA Typhoons scrambled soon after as the Tu-142s tracked south towards the North Sea.
#QRA 2/14
We've had a number of questions about why some of our major infrastructure projects are continuing at RAF Lossiemouth.
We hope to answer your questions, and alleviate your concerns in this thread 👇
We hope to answer your questions, and alleviate your concerns in this thread 👇
🛡️ The construction of our Poseidon Strategic Facility, along with the resurfacing of our runways and operating surfaces, have been categorised as Critical National Infrastructure by @GOVUK.
✈️ Runways and aircraft operating surfaces have a finite lifespan. Works must be completed on time to ensure RAF Lossiemouth's vital Defence Tasks can continue, namely:
Quick Reaction Alert (Interceptor) North
Maritime Patrol Operations
Quick Reaction Alert (Interceptor) North
Maritime Patrol Operations
Early this morning, #TeamLossie launched two Quick Reaction Alert Typhoons to intercept and shadow two Russian Tu-142 Bear-F aircraft as they approached the UK's area of interest.
This thread is everything you need to know 👇
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This thread is everything you need to know 👇
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The Russian aircraft entered the UK Flight Information Region and were intercepted west of the Shetland Islands. At no time did the two Bear-F aircraft enter UK sovereign airspace. Our Typhoons shadowed them as they tracked south towards Ireland.
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They continued around the west coast of Ireland towards the south west of the UK. Our Typhoons remained off the coast near Penzance, with our colleagues from @Armee_de_lair taking over the intercept.
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