Unexpectedly and, after days of truly miserably cold, wet and windy weather, the sun was out by midday today and we were able to eat lunch out on the lawn, only to be disturbed by a very large, low-flying aircraft.
Golspie's a sleepy place but it is accustomed to the Typhoons operating out of Lossiemouth practising their gunnery on the range on the other side of the Moray Firth but this is something quite new. A few minutes on the internet revealed that it's the RAF's relatively new Poseidon MRA1 maritime patrol aircraft, the one we bought off Boeing after we abandoned our home-made BAE System's Nimrod upgrade.
Poseidon comes with all the frills. It's described as, "a multi-role maritime patrol aircraft, equipped with sensors and weapons systems for anti-submarine warfare, as well as surveillance and search and rescue missions, radar for high-resolution mapping", and various other bells and whistles. The aircraft can also be armed with a weapons system that includes torpedoes for engaging sub-surface targets.
We've bought nine of them and, with the way things are going with Russia, we might need them.
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