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I would like to see the Integrated Logistic Support model that demonstrates the most cost effective way to get GBP 50M worth of spares back into the supply chain is to cannibalize a billion currency units worth of airframes. By all means utilize the 2 seaters if you can make the case for synthetic training, but don't try and hide the fact that Typhoon spares and cannibalization have been a piss up in brewery since day one by claiming this as a saving! It's a saving on training while the supply chain continues to hemorrhage tax payers money unfixed.
The original Tornado RTP programme (scrapping un-needed aircraft to recover parts) gave a large benefit both in financial and availability terms. I'm not involved in this one, but it wouldn't be happening if there was no business case to do it. These are T1 aircraft, so thier parts may well mitigate serious obsolescence issues, and the RAF really have no need for T1 t-birds any more.
On a point of order - an ILS/LSA study can only look at a generic fleet, not specific aeroplanes. It's a stochastic analysis which doesn't work at that level of granularity. So there won't be an "ILS model" which shows what you're looking for.
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