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Typhoon Landsin Korea


By Flt Lt Peter Lisney, 7644 Squadron, Royal Air Force Media Operations


that had claimed the lives of more than 1,000 British soldiers, sailors and airmen.


If you make calls on aSamsung phone, watch an LG television, or drive aHyundai car,you already have a connection with the tech savvy people of South Korea. At the tail end of last year,personnel from II (AC) Squadron RAF Lossiemouth flew into Osan Air Base near Seoul for aweek long exercise to boost ties with the Far East nation.


Exercise Invincible Shield saw Britain’s air defenders, RAF Typhoon jets, fly alongside and against Republic of Korea Air Force F-15K and KF-16 and United States Air Force F-16 fighters. The visit was the first time the RAF had flown in Korea since the end of the Korean War, aconflict


Leading the detachment, Wing Commander Elliott said:


“It’s simply not possible to get this sort of training in the UK, we don’t have the size of the airspace or the number of jets to fly against that they have here. This is afocused, combat air power detachment and to exercise with our allies the Americans and our partners the Koreans, is ahuge opportunity.”


The exercise also coincided with the week leading up to Remembrance Sunday. The Chief of the Air Staff was able to lay awreath at the Korean WarMemorial in Seoul and at 11am on Armistice Day personnel gathered at the nose of aTyphoon for two minutes silence.


Remarking on this, Wing Commander Elliott said:


“It is agreat opportunity for us to be here, somewhere where we have fought in the past, somewhere where our servicemen have died. So for me personally it is an incredibly poignant moment, to be here in the same area where those men sacrificed their lives for the freedom of South Korea.


“The United Kingdom was the second sending nation to come to the Korean War. We are taking the opportunity to remember their sacrifice, what they did for Korea and remember what they did for Britain as well.”


Lieutenant General Won, In-Choul, Commander,ROK Air Force Operations Command, who hosted the exercise, said:


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