USA - Navy Boeing P-8A Poseidon 168430
AIRSHOWS & EVENTS Exercise Joint Warrior 15-1
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Operator: USA - Navy - 168430
Aircraft: Boeing - P-8A Poseidon
Airport: UK - Scotland - Lossiemouth (LMO / EGQS)
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Photo taken on 2015-4-15 by Liam Paul McBride [Contact]
Camera setting: Canon EOS 5D Mark II, 1/500s, f/8.0 at 200mm ISO 100
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(17.4.2015, 12:23 CET)
RAF Lossiemouth is set to host a small contingent of international Maritime Patrol Aircraft (MPA) and Search and Rescue helicopters for Exercise JOINT WARRRIOR 15-1 which will take place from the 13th to the 24th of April.
Exercise JOINT WARRIOR (JW) is a tri-service and multinational exercise conducted in the UK during the spring and the autumn of each year. The exercise will involve more than 22 warships and submarines, 52 fixed wing aircraft, and a total of nearly 3,500 personnel from the various participating nations.
This year RAF Lossiemouth will be hosting MPA aircraft such as the P-8 Poseidon , P3 Orion and Atlantique as well as Pavehawk Search and Rescue helicopters. RAF Lossiemouth’s Typhoons will also take part in the Exercise.
Flt Lt Heidi Billany, an Operations Officer at RAF Lossiemouth, said:
“The hosting of these exercise participants will involve every section at RAF Lossiemouth. In order to facilitate each visiting Units’ individual requirements for the Exercise, planning has been ongoing since October last year to ensure that we are ready.
It will be an extremely busy fortnight for the Station and the airfield itself. Particular challenges will involve working with different coalition countries, operating large aircraft from an airfield which is set up for much smaller, fast jets and fitting it all around RAF Lossiemouth’s own ongoing high operational tempo and essential training.”
The aircraft from the Canadian, German, French and US Air Forces and the US Navies will start to arrive at RAF Lossiemouth from early April.
MOD Press Release/RAF Lossiemouth Media Team
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