Please RAF can you 9 Tranch 1 Typhoons in 2015!

[Sam the Mut]

The noise!!!

[mybrainhurts]

Sam the Mut][url said:

Please RAF can you 9 Tranch 1 Typhoons in 2015!

Are you Red Fox...?

[davepoth]

Won't they need about 50 of them due to the not particularly good availability ratio?

[Mojocvh]

Sam the Mut said:

The noise!!!

You Stupid Boy

[ninja-lewis]

davepoth said:

Won't they need about 50 of them due to the not particularly good availability ratio?

Probably. Makes far more MOD sense to cannibalise spare aircraft rather than order enough spares in the first place!

[hidetheelephants]

Your title makes no sense, much like MoD procurement.

[anonymous-user]

No chance, IIRC a Hawk is about 10k-20k to operate per hour, the Typhoon is about 70k!! Considering most of the early ones are being retired around that time to be replaced by later tranche aircraft. Don't know whether the Reds will be replaced or not, isn't the T1 fleet being wound down and replaced with a small number of T2s?

[Simpo Two]

This is more likely:

[aeropilot]

anonymous said:

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My guess would be not, when the Hawks are retired.

[Sam the Mut]

aeropilot said:

anonymous said:

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My guess would be not, when the Hawks are retired.

So what will be the jet trainer?

[davepoth]

Sam the Mut said:

So what will be the jet trainer?

I should think.

[aeropilot]

Sam the Mut said:

aeropilot said:

anonymous said:

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My guess would be not, when the Hawks are retired.

So what will be the jet trainer?

The RAF have almost taken delivery now of all it's new Hawk T2 aircraft, but with a fleet of only 28 airframes in total for the much reduced needs of the new 'miniture', modern RAF, none of these will go to the Reds. Obviously, as the large fleet of T1's are gradually withdrawn from use, the Reds will be able to cherry pick the best airframes to keep them going for a while yet, as long as MoD funding for them continues. However, they can't keep the old T1's going indefinately, so, the question about the future of the Reds is very much a when they are terminated, rather than an if, especially given the drastically reduced nature of the RAF in the future.

[hidetheelephants]

Since everything else is going UAV I give you the red arrows of 2015[drumroll]

[davepoth]

aeropilot said:

The RAF have almost taken delivery now of all it's new Hawk T2 aircraft, but with a fleet of only 28 airframes in total for the much reduced needs of the new 'miniture', modern RAF, none of these will go to the Reds. Obviously, as the large fleet of T1's are gradually withdrawn from use, the Reds will be able to cherry pick the best airframes to keep them going for a while yet, as long as MoD funding for them continues. However, they can't keep the old T1's going indefinately, so, the question about the future of the Reds is very much a when they are terminated, rather than an if, especially given the drastically reduced nature of the RAF in the future.

Unless they decide to change the colour of the main training fleet to red. That might save a bit of cash.

[TvrTone]

More likely to be the Red Barrows.



Tony