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poliphilo ([personal profile] poliphilo) wrote2015-08-04 08:28 pm

Unusual Activity

Earlier today a fighter plane roared over the house- so low I feared for the ridge tiles. A few hours later a military transport helicopter went chugging by.

Is there something going on we don't know about?  
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[personal profile] matrixmann 2015-08-04 07:38 pm (UTC)(link)
I think since the Ukraine issue I have seen more Eurofighter planes flying by since all of the other years before. But I could also be mistaken.

[identity profile] poliphilo.livejournal.com 2015-08-04 07:46 pm (UTC)(link)
The last time we saw unusual military activity in our Kentish skies was when a Russian plane verred away from its approved flight path.
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[personal profile] matrixmann 2015-08-04 08:12 pm (UTC)(link)
And that already was some time ago?

[identity profile] poliphilo.livejournal.com 2015-08-04 09:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Earlier this year, I think. Or maybe last year.
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[personal profile] matrixmann 2015-08-04 09:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Russia Today's German division released an article not that long ago that allegedly some train drivers working for Deutsche Bahn worry about all that military equipment and especially vehicles they already had to ship to Eastern Europe this year. Normally the convoys by railroad aren't even half of a dozen in numbers a year, but this one they allegedly already had more than a dozen - and it leaves them thinking what the hell does anyone need all that equipment for. Just for training seems a little odd.

[identity profile] cmcmck.livejournal.com 2015-08-05 07:51 am (UTC)(link)
They're practising low runs for being part of the USAF/RCAF in the middle east.........

[identity profile] poliphilo.livejournal.com 2015-08-05 08:27 am (UTC)(link)
Bastards.
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[identity profile] heleninwales.livejournal.com 2015-08-05 01:55 pm (UTC)(link)
There is definitely something going on. A Google+ friend who lives just a little way to the north of me has seen a lot of military helicopter activity in his vicinity. But we haven't had extra jets, so it may be nothing. There are combined training operations every so often which don't always result in actual combat missions.

[identity profile] cmcmck.livejournal.com 2015-08-05 03:31 pm (UTC)(link)
We get a lot of military choppers here anyway as we're the HQ town of the Royal Engineers.

No jets though.

[identity profile] lblanchard.livejournal.com 2015-08-05 05:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Doesn't have anything to do with all those refugees clamoring for entry, does it?