Originally Posted by
DuckDodgers
Exactly! Both BAE and RR have no real interest in prolonging T1 at mass, if you look at the past 24 months and the support contract negotiations debacle you can see why. MOD wanting more without paying for it, in this case >T2 hrs without a compensatory reduction in T1 hrs. Besides, the Air System Safety Case (ASSC) is also a bag of nails and I'd confidently state that any current COCO provision would provide a platform whose risk is more ALARP. That's before you look at training effects.........
Thanks DD. It’ll be really quite interesting to see where the RAF/Navy (MoD/Treasury) go next with regards to a COCO Aggressor platform…..if they decide they need one.
Outside of the UK, I feel Europe is on the brink of becoming the next battleground for larger scale COCO aggressor platform operations.