AMERICAN REACTS to RAF Quick Reaction Alert Crews 🚨 (THIS IS WHY THE RAF IS ONE OF THE BEST😳) 

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I'm an airline pilot based in the UK - the American aircraft could very easily have had radio issues, I hear air traffic control trying to get in contact with aircraft who haven't responded for 10 minutes or more everyday. It's more common than you think - usually down to pilots deep in conversation with each other and not paying attention, but often due to issues with the radios themselves.

Ex British military here, there are huge numbers of incidents where radios malfunction or pilots are engaged in other activities and don't respond to radio calls. I'd say please don't be defensive about it being a US military aircraft, this happens all of the time and aircraft of all nations have a variety of problems. US military aircraft fly in British airspace in huge numbers so it's more likely to happen. It was a nothing event in the video and is very common.

The RAF challenging and deterring Ruskie military aircraft and escorting unresponsive civilian planes to a safe airport, are regular events.

HO yes it did ,maintain your Radios better geezer, stop using shit parts .probably had Chinese cheap parts .c.mon Yanks pull your socks up .

I worked on the previous system and when we showed the design to the fighter controllers they complained because we hadn't put anywhere for the assistant. We told them they didn't neeed assistants with the new system. One of them gave us an example. He was in Germany at a NATO base - he had 2 RAF, 2 USAF and 3 Luftwaffe fighter all desperate for fuel. He has a French tanker and a Dutch tanker and he's trying to get them together. The phone rings and his assistant picks it up and then says "Base Commander sir, full dress in the mess tonight do you want chicken or beef". Our frazzled controller says "tell him to fuck off". The assistant unmutes the phone and says "he'll have the chicken sir". We had to admit our software couldn't do that.

It wasn't flying unauthorised, It was a US fighter stationed here as part of NATO, It was flying out of a airbase here in the UK, Problems with equipment happen more often than you'd think, The only reason there was a potential QRA alert was to confirm what was going on & re-establish communications if they had been unable to do so via radio..

A big difference between US and UK air defence, is that the UK have only minutes to respond to a nuclear bomber attack. The UK has vertually no stratigic depth, and no vast ocean between us an the enemy. This need for quick responce developed into the quickest jet ever to be built. The Lightning buit by British Electric could accelarate vertically immidietly after leaving the runway, could reach Mach 2 and fly higher than 60,000 feet, above the Russia bomber. Here is a rare clip from 1988 showing the Lightning "jumping" off the runway into a vertical accelaration. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-gOdIhu3OIsI.html The Lightning developed in the '50s, entered service in 1960.

Respect to the RAF protector’s and angels in the sky’s ❤️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

The Radar on the Typhoon as just recently been up graded ,it's probably best in the world .It's actual details are top secret.

As an ex RAF air trafficer I can assure you that American aircraft often have problems. During the cold war Russian Aircraft constantly checked out our air defences.

Only a couple years ago when I lived in Cambridge, a typhoon had scrambled and made a sonic boom over the city, which sounded like a bomb going off! Was crazy 😂 was only intercepting a plane coming from Germany

RAF planes regularly respond to Russian planes testing UK airspace.

'Buzzing' of British shores and British Navy ships is more a Russian thing. But they are playing with fire, we don't mess around (I think they get the message but still do it). The thing is, in WW2 The Royal family never left Britain. Even though they was asked if they wanted go to Canada for safety, but nope they stayed put. Which was very commendable.

The UK receives American planes all the time. Recently we’ve had Air Force one, which landed for refuelling.

The rate of climb for a Typhoon:- Maximum speed: Mach 1.8. Brakes off to Mach 1.5 at 35,000ft: less than 2 minutes 30 seconds. Maximum altitude: 55,000ft

I heard this old RAF pilot from world war 2. He had a days training and was put into air combat. His first dog fight in a team he survived but had a machine gun malfunction the whole time. Turns out he didn’t know about the safety switch.

I’ve had the pleasure of meeting a gentleman who many years ago flew Vulcan bombers on QRA to carry nuclear bombs during the Cold War. These air warriors are the best. My father and uncle were RAF during WW2.

Dont be so defensive about that US Air Force plane. Radio trouble happens all the time, and the US Air Force actually have a couple of bases in the UK and are always flying around.

This very thing happened last week over the centre of England. A Nigerian airliner went “Silent” and didn’t respond. 2 Typhoons from this squadron were scrambled and went suspersonic VERY quickly. The sonic boom was heard all over central England. Very cool and we’re very proud and grateful

There used to be two different types of QRA in the RAF. QRA within the UK, as shown in the video, is there to provide a force to intercept a potentially hostile aircraft approaching the UK. But when the RAF used to have a presence in Germany it also provided a QRA responsibility which was offensive in nature. And that was if the shit had really hit the fan. I was in the RAF many years ago, and being on QRA in Germany was a duty I performed on a few occasions - and loved it! The aircraft on QRA at RAF Brüggen weren't armed with missiles to intercept incoming aircraft, but instead loaded with a nuclear weapon - and thankfully never left the ground. The duty of QRA lasted two weeks and it was on a 24hrs on and 24hrs off basis. It started each day at 9am and lasted until 9am the following day. Then you had the following 24hrs until 9am the next morning to yourself when you would be back on shift again. Over a two week period you would do seven full shifts on and seven off, and it was a 'sleeping duty' meaning you slept there - you didn't have to stay awake for the entire 24hrs. There were four squadrons at Brüggen and each provided one aircraft, a pilot and two ground crew (×2 so they could do alternate days), the squadron that was designated the duty squadron for that month also had to provide a spare aircraft making a total of five. The QRA facility was in a secure fenced off area surrounded by watch towers with armed RAF police in them. Each day you would have to perform a routine flight servicing on your aircraft, which took about 20 minutes. The rest of the day was yours, but at least once during your seven day period 'on shift' a practice scramble would be called and you wouldn't know beforehand when that would be - it could be anytime of the day or night. The aircraft would not take off (aircraft NEVER flew with a neuk fitted, unless it was a REAL situation) but would be powered up electrically - needing only the engines to be started - until stood down by SHAPE, usually about 10 minutes later. There was a TV and VCR in the ground crew facility and games etc. There was a kitchen and an allocated cook to provide meals which were very good. QRA at Brüggen was one duty that was a joy to do.

Have a look at the Mosquito AKA the wooden wonder ! Huge bomb payloads that had large bomber crews amazed ! Lots of firepower, extremely fast ! Basically it had two Merlin engines, which were also used in the Spitfire, Hurricane, Lancaster bomber, as well as the US Mustang ! Lots of the engines were made by Packard under license btw

The USAF aircraft fly over the UK on a flight plan but ATC likes to talk to pilots. UK airspace is busy about 1300 flights a day. Even if the USAF flight is following its path if they can't be warned of other problems it can be dangerous.

still prefer old school, harrier, lightening, victor bomber, avro lancaster. russia and uk its just a game thats all, been like that for years

We get Russian aircraft trying to fly into British airspace all the time, testing our airspace. The RAF must have more experience of dealing with the Russian Air Force than any other country, especially the USA.

10 to 20 hours roughly speaking experience in flying a Hurricane or Spitfire, But they had more than that total flying time in other aircraft, Such as civilian planes and military training planes..

Your commentary over the top of this should be based in fact not your opinion which with respect, isn’t accurate! I worked as an RAF Aerospace Systems radar operator doing that job, have numerous experiences of launching QRA aircraft and intercepted Russian aircraft. Your opinion that US Air Force aircraft don’t have radios that breakdown is wrong. All military aircraft including US Air Force aircraft on occasion suffer from radio equipment malfunction. It results in the aircraft selecting a code of the transponder which alerts radar controllers to the fact the aircraft is experiencing a Comms failure. In this case a pre-existing plan of recovering the aircraft comes into operation.

Ex RAF Aircraft Fitter (Technician) here. If we have 400 ground crew for two squadrons, The USAF have a much larger ratio. I've worked with them over the years and was always surprised a how spoilt they were for manpower. We always had to be able to "wear many more hats", mainly down to the differences in financing.

Just because you asked, the English channel is a strip of sea that separates the UK from France. At its widest it is about 240 km, so if a Russian plane is flying directly between the UK and France, its very difficult to fly that route without encroaching on French or UK airspace. Enjoyed your video- keep it up, all the best, Jim (from across the pond!)

Thanks for watching this video. We've heard a few sonic booms where I. live, from Typhoons intercepting Russian aircraft, or escorting into Stansted passengers planes with radio problems, or passengers pretending they've got bombs !

If you haven't already then I recommend reacting to a video called When Britain nuked America twice. It's here on youtube and very interesting to watch. Thank you

I live very close to the typhoon base where this was filmed and no word of a lie as I was watching this 4 of them just buzzed very low over my house

13:30 that was a radio malfunction as QRA is completely for dangerous situations so it would never be used for a known aircraft

You need to watch the documentary entitled " when Britain nuked America, twice"

dude it did have a radio problem,get a grip it is a normal situation

I've seen jets going to intercept aircraft before. You can hear the sonic boom as they break the sound barrier.

The USAF plane had a problem with it's radio that's it do you just make things up?

if you get the chance you'd love Ross kemp documentaries. Not only does he do documentaries on UK issues but across the world. I especially like the Ross kemp in Afghanistan series. Showing UK soldiers on the frontline in Afghanistan

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Cool fact - France is just 20 miles across the channel from Britain. I travel double that distance daily…. And whilst we know it as the English Channel or Dover Strait, some of it belongs to France and there’s some ongoing conflicts between British & French fisherman.

We haven’t got a worry about what comes in from the sky it’s what’s coming over the channel every day hundreds of illegals

Speculation here. When the ground controller designated the inbound aircraft as ZZ001 he must have known it was training as some Royal Air Force aircraft have the identification numbers ZZxxx so maybe the ground knew it was training but I'm guessing the pilots didn't.

Thankyou for a very nice website. I have watched some of your other sites as well ,and I like them all ! rgds from a ex RAF engineer of many years ago .

With the sheer amount of USAF entering UK airspace every year it is inevitable that a few of them will have issues. Military aircraft are not like commercial aircraft and will for example fly through a light storm. This can shake things loose or more to the point cause circuit issues inside something like a radio. This is far less common now than it used to be with valve sets but it still happens. There is another thing. There is now an EJ20x engine as an upgrade to the EJ200. It's 30% more powerful and is a drop in replacement. At 500kts @ 60,000 feet it's 5% more efficient. A few Typhoons have had these fitted (they are expensive even by military jet engine standards) and they now climb at an insane rate. of near 500m per second under optimal conditions. That's start of take-off run to 65,000 feet in something like 75 seconds.

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One thing you have to remember is that although 911 was horrific the UK has had decades of terrorism to deal with, so we're pretty hot when a suspicious aircraft comes our way. Also, we have quite a few American airbases over here so considering how many USAF planes are flying around the faulty radio isn't so hard to believe. Things go wrong with these complex machines frequently.

aw we know this their fly over my house all the time training the sound is insane

As a brit I think the raf is one of the best in the world not the largest but extremely well trained with good equipment

Listen Dez things go wrong they arent critisising US just telling you whats happened...dont be defensive..

I grew up in Prestwick who's airport I believe is a designate terrorism airport. I remember one time the air force jets buzzing overhead very low and loud. It turns out they were escorting a plane from Cairo that was bound for New York (I think). Someone on the plane had left a note in the plane toilet saying "I'll set this plane on fire" with their seat number so RAF intercepted and landed the plane with police sniper and tactical units greeting them on the runway. Not sure what happened to them. I'm assuming jailed or deported.

RAF Mildenhall and RAF Lakenheath are USAF bases in the united kingdom that also work alongside the RAF in defending UK airspace... F15SE and F35A are commonly seen training over england, helping our british brothers

I did QRA a few times on 29 Sqn (one of the Sqn’s in this video) in the early 80’s at Coningsby during the Cold War. Sometimes the alert state was so high that the pilots were actually strapped in the aircraft waiting to scramble. F4 Phantoms in those days and we intercepted TU 144 Bears 2 or 3 times a week.

Quality as per Dezz, There is a story and video footage of an RAF fighter pilot gone rogue… the backstory leaves me but he (Alan Pollock) wasn’t happy with a few things so he took his jet for an extremely low altitude joy ride around the U.K., creating incredible spectacles for onlookers, and he flew it straight through the barely wide enough gap in Londons tower bridge. Worth a watch in your own time at least, or a reaction if others recommend it, but I know it’s not a widely known or very popular story.

At 13:37 you mention that someone would have had to know about that plane and that America wouldn't just invade the british airspace, with is true but it was probably just a electrical malfunction bcs the usaf have 6 bases in the uk RAF Alconbury, RAF Fairford, RAF Lakenheath, RAF Mildenhall, RAF Menwith Hill and RAF Croughton

Hahaha you think mechanical things don't have issues just because they are American? Every machine,radio etc.m has issues...by the way i enjoy your channel I'm a female not a bro..😂

I used to live a 10 minute drive from RAF Coningsby and you can hear both the Battle of Britain memorial flight and the fighters start up and take off and on a clear day if you look though some decent binoculars you can just make out the aircraft taking flight and on rare occasions a spitfire and hurricane will take it in turns playing tag with a euro fighter it’s soo fun to watch

9:44 "Every single aircraft is accounted for. They know their flight path..." Not quite. General aviation (eg private light aircraft) flying under VFR (Visual Flight Rules) need not file any flight plans or even notify atc unless they are flying into restricted zones. Many small airfields do not even have 24 hour air traffic control and pilots basically clear themselves by calling on channel to other aircraft to avoid conflicts (you really don't want to be taxiing unto the runway as another aircraft is landing!). Commercial flights file flight plans and both military and commercial aircraft carry transponders that automatically identify the aircraft when interrogated.

Great reaction! Think you're one of only three reaction channels I know of who've done this particular video. Take a shot every time he says "crazy" though 😆

The typhoons are crazy good, they’re dog fighters, not long distance craft. They’re designed to be *not* aerodynamic, rather than flying straight they can twist and curve, run loops around other craft. They need multiple computers to keep them airborne, but when the pilot wants to to turn he’s not fighting physics.

All countries have this set up ,though more than other get the practise .with us being a small island the russians like to test us ,countries like germany for example not so much ..From what i know there is a base outside LA where drones are flown from and there is RAF pilots flying drones from there ...When the civilian population is going about their normal daily life without a worry then you know your Military , Police etc are doing their job..When i was in the British Army the alert state would go up ( terrorists) and the civvies never knew lol....We have roadsigns in the UK to direct you to the secret bunkers lol they are museum pieces now

I live near High Wycombe ( UK ) having to pass the Bunker almost everyday and they random stop cars outside it

The American aircraft would have had real radio problems, if it were a drill command would have known, not good to shoot down a friendly aircraft by mistake.

To be fair to russia,, we often encroach on their sea space with our navy..Chack out the HMS defender vs Russia video.. Its a tense moment.

Yeah, we get Russian jets and bombers regular, they’re just testing our defences but it’s quite common

When you said they will speak English made me laugh cause that’s a true statement

There is too much talking and not enough watching. Can't watch.

I always wondered why the USAF never at least intercepted the hijacked planes on 9/11. All maybe they did but it was never publicised.

How many typhoons have the raf got and how many are actually available to deploy…😊

there has been quite a few instances in the last year or two that these guys have had to deploy quicky to meet Russian aircraft and have had to escort them away from Britian and its area of interest.

I wish you good luck if you try to brake check an aircraft lol

Is it just me or does the guy in charge look like miniminter from side men

Their Navy Pilots looking at their wings.

I was flying my twin engine plane when a typhoon flew past me at super sonic speed

US air force train in the uk and that's why it was in UK air space.

Watch it again, there were pilots, but there were some which had "No Combat" experience.

reason uk and usa are allies, you dont mess with the uk or its cousins

English is the international language of pilots.

You should do reaction to video of How Britain Nuked America twice. I don't know if the video is still on You Tube.

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RAF best in world

Excellent Video!!! ❤

US got weakness

Great videos

UK secret

13:34 "USAF wouldn't just fly into UK airspace..." The USAF has a number of bases in the UK (technically they are RAF bases currently loaned to the US) and fly their aircraft freely within UK airspace. The operator reported the aircraft as flying out of Marham--that is RAF Marham so they would already know it was almost certainly a military aircraft A quick shout to ATC at Marham would have confirmed the identity of the aircraft and the likely reason for the lack of contact. As a former RAF avionics tech I can, sadly, confirm that such failures are far from rare--I spent way too many hours fixing those radios!

The American pilots have more radio problems than you think , plus remember the largest Air Force in the UK is the USAF....

Enjoyed it very much that Americans take interest in their biggest allies abilities. Som info they didn’t disclose in this video you might like to know. The typhoon tranche 4 is able to be supersonic mach 1+ 90 seconds from release of its brakes and cleared to mach 2.2 so it’s an awesome dog fighter as well with its cranked arrow wing design. It also carries the meteor air to air missile check out the states on that if you enjoy such things. It’s a very very good weapon indeed.

The pilots didn't want their surnames mentioned and yet the camera showed that one plane belonged to Sqn leader Robertson? Bit sloppy on the film makers part but it does demonstrate how small oversights could lead to bigger problems.

@ Dezz. If you like the vid you just watched you really are going to love this one. It's unbelievably jaw dropping buddy. Put this into the youtube search box and do a reaction. British engineer who ACCIDENTALLY TOOK OFF in a fighter jet: Taffy Holden's Lightning Flight.

Back in our time in the RAF, my wife sat beside 'fighter controllers', i looked after the computer systems they used. QRA always involves much more than you think. Our RAF radar site handled QRA South. Another site handled QRA North. When a QRA is launched, 2 more aircraft are moved/armed/crewed ready... there is always a QRA set on the ground ready to launch if required. They are on call 24/7...that includes christmas etc. Many times i have been on shift at christmas. Its up to the RAF to 'police' the air around the UK... USAF have very little play at all in it. Hope you enjoyed the video.

My mum was a Captain in Queen Alexandra’s Royal Naval Nursing Service. She told stories of looking after Germans who’d had to abandon ship, particularly those who were crewing tankers and incurred severe burns jumping off their ship into waters that were on fire below due to the oil in the surface. When they arrived in the naval hospital, the Germans, despite having severe burns and other injuries, tried to escape through the windows, by climbing on top of wardrobes and hiding under their beds. They’d been told by their commanders that the British would murder them; inject them with poison and poison their food. They were given food that the rest of the UK didn’t have access to easily - cottage pie with vegetables, spotted dick with real sultanas and currants, and custard made with milk. (No rabbit or whale meat.) Yes, the Germans may not have recognised these British classics as real food! My mother ate a spoonful of the food to prove it wasn’t poisoned.

We in the UK have wing of steel that's protected us for over 80 years long may it continue.

There’s a nuclear bunker in Anglesey. You just see a hillock with a big metal wheel and lid.

English is the international language for all aircraft . Russian for all space communication. ❤️

when my friend was in the Fleet air arm they often flew up to intercept Russian planes, the Pilots got used to eachother and would wave to each other that was in the cold war.

The English Channel one you would of seen the French up as well shadowing the Russians...

Others have gotten around by showing a transparent view of the video, good luck it's a great video the greatest raid of all time

Used to live the next village up from coningsby you see the planes flying over all the time even see the old ww2 planes flying over too

If the Russians get too close the QRA flights get to go hot take off and straight to supersonic.

Lol testing our airspace like UK tested America one