"Mystery Stealth aircraft spotted in UK" Topic
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| Tango01 | 26 Feb 2014 10:47 p.m. PST |
"The following footage was shot on Feb. 18, near BAE Systems facilities at Warton, in Lancashire, England. The aircraft being moved is probably a full size model of the BAE Replica, a British stealth aircraft model developed by BAE in the 1990s and used for radar testing before its associated program, the FOAS (Future Offensive Air System), was cancelled in 2005. The FOAS was a study aimed at finding a replacement for the RAF Tornado GR4. After the program was scrapped, it was replaced by the Deep and Persistent Offensive Capability (DPOC) program that was itself cancelled in 2010, following the UK military's spending review…" link Full article here.
link Amicalement
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| JimDuncanUK | 27 Feb 2014 3:49 a.m. PST |
My computer security system blocked an attack after looking at the second link above. Be careful! |
| Tony58 | 27 Feb 2014 4:09 a.m. PST |
No problems with the links :) YouTube link Looks good, even upside down on the trailer. |
| 55th Division | 27 Feb 2014 4:51 a.m. PST |
As someone said as a comment on the Youtube link if you look just before it enters the hanger there is a pole to be seen looks like they are going to do some Radar testing as seen with this SR71
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| victor0leto | 27 Feb 2014 7:10 a.m. PST |
that is a horrible photograph, and one that can be easily criticized as fake, particularly because of the long shadow present in front of the truck and the absence of a similar shadow for the pole. |
| Happy Little Trees | 27 Feb 2014 7:15 a.m. PST |
Or just as easily one could point out that the shadow is actually from the aircraft and the shadow of the pole is the thin line leading from the base of the pole to the plane's shadow. |
 Legion 4  | 27 Feb 2014 9:34 a.m. PST |
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| Tango01 | 27 Feb 2014 10:54 a.m. PST |
LOL! (SMILE). Amicalement
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| Lion in the Stars | 27 Feb 2014 3:03 p.m. PST |
It looks like a small jet, T38/Hawk/Alphajet size (maybe as big as a Gripen). Good for a tech demonstrator, not so good for a stealth warplane. Internal weapons bays require large birds. |
| Losing the Will | 28 Feb 2014 11:15 a.m. PST |
It is a full sized mock up of the BAE Replica. |
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