Originally Posted by
Foghorn Leghorn
It wouldn’t work. As you point out it means more time away, which means a concomitant reduction in numbers to do QRA and I guess the force is already running hot. The logistics tail to conduct dets all over the place would be horrendous when there’s already spares issues. I also guess you’d get the standard answer of - ‘different budgets’ so you wouldn’t be able to use the money ear marked for this contract.
Quite a sad state of affairs that we will end up with a 1990s solution….
What’s the definition of a 1990s solution? Somebody ought to define what is deemed good enough in the live environment as we march forward to LVC. Especially as the bearer network has already demonstrated TRL8 and that system is supposedly going to be integrated to Lvl 3 on the Qatari Typhoons.