Originally Posted by
CAEBr
Exactly, and since they still have to be serviced and maintained, with a functioning TAA, and can't be subsumed into theTMk2 fleet, then while fewer TMk1s will be in service, the support system will remain meanimg any savings are going to be less than diddly squat, certainly not enough to provide any meaning alternative to 100 Sqn.
Depends on the renegotiation of the Hawk Support Contracts of which there are currently four. If they realise savings from these, along with full AFT savings for 100 Sqn, then regardless of RAFAT enduring there will be a pot of money. The question is, how will those realised savings be reinvested? Into Cyber, AI, and Space or an interim COCO provision pre-NGOT/MUSTANG at reduced hours? Have they been identified to fund the BAE contract to support 9 Sqn QEAF at Leeming or an uplift in T2 hours at Valley on IV and 25 Sqn? Let's wait and find out.........they'll end up with an Alpha Jet
