Originally Posted by
Mr N Nimrod
back in 2015 when the decision was made to upgrade Sentry, I suspect the decision makers were quite unaware of the state of the RAF E3D fleet. Woeful mismanagement and underinvestment had left them in a very poor state. The ‘pause’ of Sentry operations (grounding) at the start of 2017 (?) was part of that. Some of the fleet management and decision making in the years leading up to 2015 probably bordered on utter incompetence.
And yes, for Chug, directly relating to safety and airworthiness.
And yes, those responsible got their promotions!
Sorry, NM, missed your post and hence late on parade. There seems to be a continual list of premature fleet retirements at the moment, and the Sentry was not alone in being caused by lack of airworthiness. As to the Typhoon Tr 1's, as Foghorn Leghorn helpfully explains,
If you know you know
What is worse, an ever vanishing air force, one still riddled with unairworthiness, or both? Of course, one might be minded to set about reforming Military Air Regulation and Air Accident Investigation, but that would mean lifting the lid on the subversion and its cover up of UK Military Air Safety by RAF VSOs, and that seemingly is the worse of all options...