WTF is Starmer doing! This makes the UK an enabler. No doubt once we enabled or actively displaced more people, then Farage will be wobbling his head around talking about little boats like they have nothing at all to do with us.
So they couldnt get the type of plane correct, but we’re to assume that they could tell where it flew from? Seems legit.
Here’s the BBC confirming it’s from a “US F-15E Strike Eagle” … “from the US 494th Fighter Squadron based at RAF Lakenheath in the UK”
This does not mean it came from there. It may have been redeployed. UK is not in fighter range of Iran. That’s about 5000km.
The F15 has a range of 3400miles, according to Wikipedia. It can refuel in mid air, taking it range past the 5000 or do needed to make it back for another refuel. The can stay in the air for up to 15, hours, and travel cruise at .9 Mach.
Wouldn’t that make sense? Radars can detect an object, but the precise type would require more precision, no?
You cant track a plane from 3600km away with a radar (how far the UK is from Iran), if for no other reason than the curve of the earth puts hundreds of kilometers of rock between them. And wreckage is pretty easy to identify for experts, you can find fairly small pieces that could only be from one aircraft type.
This comment only makes sense if you disregard entirely detection by satellite image.
You did say radar… Anyway, good look snapping a picture of a ~20m jet travelling almost at mach1 from at least 500km away with a camera that is on a fixed orbit so you dont control where it is at a particular time. (and even if you did unless you took a picture of it during take off, that also wouldnt tell you where it was flying from.)
Notice how those are on the ground, at a known location (an airbase), so a photo can be planned for in advance.
They are decidedly not fast jets travelling on an attack mission at close to the speed of sound.
