you know, our reporting and news releases there has been about eight osprey crashes in the last decade or so. what do you make of the aircraft s history? is the osprey safe to fly? yeah, good morning. you know, it s one of those aircraft that has had a lot of trouble in its developmental phases. it had a lot of cost overruns. like you mentioned there, are about 51 or so people killed in osprey-related accidents since the start of the operational flying of this aircraft, which was in the late 1980s. this aircraft came out operation that the ill-fated operation in iran when we were trying to extricate the hostages in 1980. so what they needed was an air aircraft that could do both helicopter type takeoffs, vertical takeoffs and landings, as well as short takeoffs and landings, and they developed the
strongly support american involvement here, i heard again today frustration about how slow the biden administration has been in providing that military support. 33 abrams tanks were pledged in january. now they are being told they won t be here until september. they have authorized allowing people to be trained in f-16s. but the united states continues to hold back on allowing the foreign minister said he doesn t think they will get them until the beginning of next year. what good does that do? the aid needs to come faster? i want to say very sincerely, president biden said in his last state of the union address, that we are there as long as it takes. it shouldn t take that long. we re the most powerful nation on earth. we have the most powerful military on earth. we should be providing them with tanks, with missiles, with air
is in its 57th year which is actually the longest serving of any aircraft we ve had in the royal air force. i m really proud of everything the air aircraft and people have achieved in the time so to do this amazing final event is quite a special honour. to do this amazing final event is quite a special honour. flying “ust behind the hercules i quite a special honour. flying “ust behind the hercules will i quite a special honour. flying “ust behind the hercules will be h quite a special honour. flying just behind the hercules will be the i quite a special honour. flying just. behind the hercules will be the sea 17 and this is one with a very special royal connection. last september this plane was used to transport the late queen s coffin from edinburgh to raf northolt. 0ver from edinburgh to raf northolt. over the years fly past over buckingham palace have provided some of the most memorable moments of the royal year. but whether they can go ahead is down to the weather. this was
ze zelenskyy, it hit buildings around the city and homes. it s not clear what the target was. perhaps we have a clue as to what the motivation may have been, at least according to ukrainian television. it had one of the fragments that had an inscription on it referring to a drone strike earlier. as for the patriot missile system that ukraine has been given since the outset of the war. the difference is that it has the ability to shoot down incoming drones, rockets, air aircraft. they had a further distance which means potentially you could strike down the targets farther away from the intended targets. you wouldn t have the kind of