If you thought RAF jets were owned by the RAF, think again. The RAF squadron targeted for a repaint by Palestine Action due to its involvement in supplying Israel’s genocide, does not in fact belong to the RAF at all. It belongs ultimately to Polygon Global Partners LLP, a Hedge Fund. Through a chain of […]
The author of this article is a silly and he should feel very silly.
Once more, with feeling:
British air-to-air refuelling tankers use the British drogue system. Israel uses the US fixed-boom system. The two are utterly incompatible. It is physically impossible for RAF tankers to refuel Israeli planes. And if they were somehow magically doing so, (Perhaps an airman hanging on for dear life with a hosepipe) they wouldn’t be based in Brize Norton, hundreds of miles away, when the RAF have a perfectly good base on Cyprus, which is - for those, like Craig Murray who evidently skived off Geography for a smoke behind the bike shed - closer to Iran than Oxfordshire.
And why they would need to is beyond me, given that Israel has its own fleet of air-to-air refuelling tankers. They even hook up with Israeli planes. Which British planes don’t. In case you missed that.
Besides this, the private ownership of the Voyager tankers was known to anyone who [checks notes] paid attention to the RAF’s own press releases when they procured the contract. And indeed any other time when they became newsworthy, such as in British media reporting about Air Force Boris a few years ago.
This article has a premise based on a rookie falsehood that would have been extremely easy to fact-check, and delivers no new information into the public domain.
There is plenty to criticise without descending to this attention-seeking hackery which merely muddies the waters and drains away credibility from those who have legitimate concerns.
Thanks for debunking this. The article also mentions “the active RAF involvement in the Genocide in Gaza”, do you think the RAF isn’t involved at all? Or just not with air-to-air refuelling tankers?
Palestine Action’s excellent act of resistance in vandalising this Hedge Fund Air Force has brought all of this to our attention. Which is yet a further reason to be grateful to Palestine Action.
Do you think the people behind that organization wrongly picked their target?
The author of this article is a silly and he should feel very silly.
Once more, with feeling:
British air-to-air refuelling tankers use the British drogue system. Israel uses the US fixed-boom system. The two are utterly incompatible. It is physically impossible for RAF tankers to refuel Israeli planes. And if they were somehow magically doing so, (Perhaps an airman hanging on for dear life with a hosepipe) they wouldn’t be based in Brize Norton, hundreds of miles away, when the RAF have a perfectly good base on Cyprus, which is - for those, like Craig Murray who evidently skived off Geography for a smoke behind the bike shed - closer to Iran than Oxfordshire.
And why they would need to is beyond me, given that Israel has its own fleet of air-to-air refuelling tankers. They even hook up with Israeli planes. Which British planes don’t. In case you missed that.
Besides this, the private ownership of the Voyager tankers was known to anyone who [checks notes] paid attention to the RAF’s own press releases when they procured the contract. And indeed any other time when they became newsworthy, such as in British media reporting about Air Force Boris a few years ago.
This article has a premise based on a rookie falsehood that would have been extremely easy to fact-check, and delivers no new information into the public domain.
There is plenty to criticise without descending to this attention-seeking hackery which merely muddies the waters and drains away credibility from those who have legitimate concerns.
Thanks for debunking this. The article also mentions “the active RAF involvement in the Genocide in Gaza”, do you think the RAF isn’t involved at all? Or just not with air-to-air refuelling tankers?
Do you think the people behind that organization wrongly picked their target?