This may come as no surprise, but with 76 Hawk T1s (The Red Arrows not included) now getting the acetylene torch treatment post 31 March 2022, haste to remove assets seems to be the one thing government wastes no time over. According to Business Live, the work load of 100 Sqn and 736 NAS will be taken up by "synthetic training". I'd have thought that the role of each was very much one which had to be conducted using the real thing!? Also, the Red Arrows get a stay of execution until 2030 only because of a raft of commercial sponsors. Everything one reads today is utterly depressing.
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