Exactly.

Wow.

Oman is fairly sane. It really is very close to the West. They are not Saudi Arabia.

It’s a pity they didn’t develop this a little further. Apparently it had massively superior performance in the cruise..

Heres a good example. RAF Mert team in Afghanistan...the soldier doesn’t hang around...

I remember the stories of ‘Meals Rejected by Ethiopians’ at the time.

I don’t recall any food and water infrastucture being hit. Water pumping stations, sewage treatment and dams were no targeted at any point.

To be honest there weren’t many people in the UK who understood the difference, bit of a historical quirk. It was only a comparatively small geographic area, but conversely one of the busiest.

It did work well for the RAF. Not anymore though. The last RAF SAR Sea Kings left service in October 2015. They’re now a Red and White colour scheme on AW189 and S-92's operated by Bristow.

The Yellow Sea Kings were RAF. I used to live next to the main maintenance base for the fleet, RAF Finningley. The RN SAR Sea Kings were Red and Grey. They were retired finally a couple of days ago. All SAR off the Uk is privately run now.

And when it arrives, if it ever does given that the last 2 programmes have bitten the dust after swallowing a shedload of cash, it will be inferior to Brimstone 2. US defence procurement doesn’t make a spectacular amount of sense....

There is an awful lot wrong with that chart.....look at the dates...the first Yasen class was launched 15 years later than that....there is a lot more as well. No scale on the left for one, plus it’s use in the classic USN ‘please give us more money’ appeal to Congress.....the people I know in the RN would laugh at a…

And the Israeli’s just keep on launching stand off munitions with impunity....

Absolutely, of the many varieties of missiles carried by the S-400 the one with the greatest range against a fighter target has a NEZ of about 50 miles. Thats why they have to have a Pantsir alongside an S-400, to protect it against PGM’s. Even then it could be overwhelmed.

To be fair the Yasen is in production, with a sixth just ordered.

I’ll give you a simple clue.....how will it see it to shoot?

There’s a video of a live launch on a target in Syria.

They’ve used them before over Libya. The RAF used them (in their StormShadow guise) over libya and Iraq in 2003. Plenty have been fired.

Cough...MH17...Cough