Forum: Air Power

This is a nice to have capability, but I have to say 'must have' too... RAF Sentinel and Sentry enable critical time rescue of downed F-15E crew.

Respects. Salute

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/ne ... r-jet.html

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Good old Sun reporting, just a shame you can't trust a word they say.
From the article referring to the Typhoon: "Flying at twice the speed of sound it is over Libya in just TEN minutes." Laughable reporting froma laughable 'news'paper.

The article says "Sharp-eyed British crew on board RAF Sentinel and Sentry surveillance planes picked up the locations of both men and were able to feed vital information to rescuers."

I have to laugh at the sharp eyed bit, I mean everyone knew it was going down, it was boradcast on the open Malta ATC channel for gods sake. Typical ego-stroking rubbish from the Sun i'm afraid.

Thanks for that perspective Shep, I confess I am not up to speed on various media outlet biases, although I have to respect RAF Sentinel capabilities and role.

Can you PM me or reply a link to any further details on this downing? Is the open Malta ATC channel still open? Can you give a link to that? Thanks.

Malta ATC linky
http://www.liveatc.net/search/?icao=MLA

It tends to get very busy in the evenings (UK time)

The Scramble website has some info on the various goings on
http://forum.scramble.nl/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=72317

Even without Malta's ATC Freq., as soon as a crew pulls handles, it's not a big secret that somebody's punched out.

Glad that the ACES II seats worked as advertised, and the crew is doing ok.

Forum: Air Power

RAF Sentinel and Sentry recon cue downed aircrew rescue ops.