...as one arrser put it on another thread.
The 91 year experiment has come to an end (and hopefully you with it).
http://www.arrse.co.uk/current-affa...-proposed-ministry-defence-2.html#post3354670
The 91 year experiment has come to an end (and hopefully you with it).
http://www.arrse.co.uk/current-affa...-proposed-ministry-defence-2.html#post3354670
But the RAF will bear the brunt of the planned cuts. The Air Force will lose 7,000 airmen almost one sixth of its total staff and 295 aircraft. The cuts will leave the Force with fewer than 200 fighter planes for the first time since 1914.
The cut will mean job losses as RAF Lossiemouth and RAF Marham totalling almost 5,000 personnel.
Under the plans, the number of Eurofighter Typhoons is likely to be reduced further from 160 to 107 planes based at a single RAF airfield to save £1  billion. The entire fleet of 36 Hercules transport aircraft, the workhorse in Iraq and Afghanistan, is to be phased out and replaced by an order of 22 new A400M planes.
The £3.6 billion project for nine Nimrod MR4 reconnaissance aircraft is also vulnerable, along with a number of other surveillance planes.
So despite a glorious, century-long history the RAF will enter a less celebrated era.
For that, its fighter jet educated chiefs have to shoulder some blame. For far, far too long they ignored the pleas to become the workhorses of the sky, instead opting for the exquisite technology found in fast jets.
They therefore pay the penalty for failing to get to grips with the scandalous helicopter shortage, the ailing Tristar passenger aircraft and the overworked Hercules used to fly in troops and equipment
The cut will mean job losses as RAF Lossiemouth and RAF Marham totalling almost 5,000 personnel.
Under the plans, the number of Eurofighter Typhoons is likely to be reduced further from 160 to 107 planes based at a single RAF airfield to save £1  billion. The entire fleet of 36 Hercules transport aircraft, the workhorse in Iraq and Afghanistan, is to be phased out and replaced by an order of 22 new A400M planes.
The £3.6 billion project for nine Nimrod MR4 reconnaissance aircraft is also vulnerable, along with a number of other surveillance planes.
So despite a glorious, century-long history the RAF will enter a less celebrated era.
For that, its fighter jet educated chiefs have to shoulder some blame. For far, far too long they ignored the pleas to become the workhorses of the sky, instead opting for the exquisite technology found in fast jets.
They therefore pay the penalty for failing to get to grips with the scandalous helicopter shortage, the ailing Tristar passenger aircraft and the overworked Hercules used to fly in troops and equipment