Originally Posted by
ORAC
Seriously?
Maintain the entire spares, engineering, training and other support in the FI for 3 aircraft? Presumably they crew and engineers would have to be permantely based there without a UK based fleet for roulement? Would they have to install a sim for training?
Hmm, but then the FJ crew would need to qualify to AAR from a KC-130 before deployment. Back to a UK fleet again.
Face it, once the decision was made to dispose of the C-130 fleet that was it and Atlas/Voyager is the only solution.
Er, you are forgetting the 8 C-17 Globemasters, not too mention 60 Chinooks.