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Post by Deleted on Mar 19, 2019 9:36:03 GMT
No idea why but perhaps they can still do a job of work.
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Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on Mar 19, 2019 10:43:31 GMT
It suggests they keep them in flying retirement, dismantling a few every year and canabilising the parts to keep an ever reducing fleet ready for any future conflict. I don't think this is unusual in the US where they keep huge reserve fleets in storage to support attritional losses during combat.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 19, 2019 10:59:57 GMT
Some suggestion they may continue for some time to come in the dissimilar aggressor role but how long that goes on is anyone's guess.
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Post by Tim on Mar 19, 2019 12:18:32 GMT
It's quite common - Lightnings (the proper ones!) were still flying with BAE into the 1990s after the RAF retired them in 1988
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Post by alf on Mar 20, 2019 15:16:32 GMT
It suggests they keep them in flying retirement, dismantling a few every year and canabilising the parts to keep an ever reducing fleet ready for any future conflict. I don't think this is unusual in the US where they keep huge reserve fleets in storage to support attritional losses during combat. It makes sense - if you look at the tiny numbers of frontline combat aircraft we and other EU countries have, and the tiny number of pilots trained, it would be very hard to replace combat losses. These aircraft take ages to make and bits come from across europe - the US take it seriously enough to keep older aircraft available to replace these potential losses. The fact they are flying suggests to me they are keeping reserve pilot's hours in, its not enough just to have the aircraft... |
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Post by michael on Mar 20, 2019 15:39:40 GMT
its not enough just to have the aircraft... One of the theories of these is that they're being used to develop drone technology. |
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Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on Mar 20, 2019 15:47:54 GMT
It suggests they keep them in flying retirement, dismantling a few every year and canabilising the parts to keep an ever reducing fleet ready for any future conflict. I don't think this is unusual in the US where they keep huge reserve fleets in storage to support attritional losses during combat. It makes sense - if you look at the tiny numbers of frontline combat aircraft we and other EU countries have, and the tiny number of pilots trained, it would be very hard to replace combat losses. These aircraft take ages to make and bits come from across europe - the US take it seriously enough to keep older aircraft available to replace these potential losses. The fact they are flying suggests to me they are keeping reserve pilot's hours in, its not enough just to have the aircraft... The RAF has over 500 fast jet qualified pilots. That's not a bad number. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 27, 2019 9:40:17 GMT
It makes sense - if you look at the tiny numbers of frontline combat aircraft we and other EU countries have, and the tiny number of pilots trained, it would be very hard to replace combat losses. These aircraft take ages to make and bits come from across europe - the US take it seriously enough to keep older aircraft available to replace these potential losses. The fact they are flying suggests to me they are keeping reserve pilot's hours in, its not enough just to have the aircraft... The RAF has over 500 fast jet qualified pilots. That's not a bad number. Only available for combat between 10am and 4pm Tues-Thurs, though. |
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Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on Mar 27, 2019 11:26:31 GMT
The RAF has over 500 fast jet qualified pilots. That's not a bad number. Only available for combat between 10am and 4pm Tues-Thurs, though. Of course. Got to have the weekend off old boy. |
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Post by ChrisM on Mar 27, 2019 11:26:34 GMT
Only available for combat between 10am and 4pm Tues-Thurs, though. Many a true word..... I often wonder what would happen if another country were to attack us on a Sunday morning... How many would claim that "It's our day off" or a rest day or "I am at church" and would therefore not respond to a hostile threat |
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Post by scouse on Apr 2, 2019 9:39:48 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Apr 5, 2019 15:31:51 GMT
From my little experience, the RAF do seem to treat their employees as adults and with less "shit". Having said that, they do get confused by Wednesday - it being both the start and end of the weekend.
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