Originally Posted by
ORAC
2022/23 was new record year for Rivet Joint in Royal Air Force service (unsurprisingly due to situation in Europe).
The 3 aircraft of 51 Sqn (really, probably 2 since "beast" ZZ666 is in USA getting its periodic upgrade cycle) flew 1380 hours in 160 sorties (average 11+ hours).
What effect will all this activity - presumably unanticipated at acquisition time - have on the expected Life Of Type and/or annual running costs?
If your acquisition business case was built on the squadron delivering "X" operational flying hours a year for say fifteen years, but you now discover that the requirement is for 2 x "X" or 3 x "X" operational flying hours a year, then what happens?