the service’s ageing and unreliable fleet of Boeing E-3D Sentry...
In airline service the B707 series aircraft were kept in reliable, profitable service for more than 25 years. Some of those I worked on were 27 years old when i moved on. They were replaced by B757s that are still in service as freighter conversions to day, more than 30 years later. Aircraft I am presently working with include a fleet of B767-200s that were delivered in 1983. With 85,000+ hours on them they are still meeting reliability targets of 98% despatch within 15 minutes of scheduled departure time. Quite what the age of the E3-Ds has to do with it I don't understand. Why can't the Royal Air Force keep them in reliable operation?