Likely to be the U.K. Image is a C130 Hercules XV206 which met its end in Afghanistan 2006 where it hit a anti tank mine on landing. All crew including the British Ambassador to Afghanistan and Special Forces survived.
Years later the government confirmed a large amount of cash on board had also been lost in the crash. This had been ear marked for Afghan Warlords to pay for intelligence.
by LockStockSnatch
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Difficult to be 100% sure but looks to be in the sky.
I think that looks more like a French farmhouse than a British one.
The obvious answer is over Salisbury Plain or maybe some other training area. There’s often gently crumbling buildings to be found in such places.
There’s also not many places that aircraft like that can practice low level shenanigans, particularly given the pod on the wing which suggests sneaky beaky activities rather than more mundane training.
Lovely shot though.
That’s XV206. I worked on that at RAF Lyneham, and down route. It became a deceased Fat Albert in Afghanistan in 2006. No fatalities, though.
I think it’s near impossible to tell, from yhe shape of the buildings and landscape it looks to be in the cotswolds or mid Wales region. These birds used to do low level routes all around the country so it’s hard to tell where
Flying pretty low, my guess would be Lyneham Wiltshire
If you posted this on the Ukraine war video sub, they’d have it geo located to within an inch in a few minutes. I’m sure someone here could