From Aviation Week...
Jan 21, 2011
By Robert Wall
YEOVIL, England — Concerns are mounting in the U.K. that anti-submarine warfare (ASW) skills are beginning to erode because of competing operational demands and equipment decisions.
The fear, voiced by government and industry officials, goes beyond the decision last year to cancel the Nimrod MRA4 maritime patrol aircraft project. Some high-end skills to hunt submarines are no longer getting adequate training, warns an industry official.
A case of "stating the fekkin obvious"?
...the rest of the article is here:
http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/gener...hannel=defense
Off topic, but very interesting, is this snippet:
Cameron welcomes RAF's last C-17 to Brize Norton
...The RAF and Boeing had planned to host a general media facility to welcome the aircraft at Brize Norton, but this was abandoned within less than 24h of the event to allow only local press to attend. The service's transport super-base falls within Cameron's parliamentary constituency of Witney, Oxfordshire.
Any one out there care to explain why the planned "general media facility" was abandoned - guardroom didn't have enough visitor car passes, perhaps?
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