BAE 146-200 - UOR for Two

[El_Presidente]

cornish-stormrider,

What on earth is your problem? Additional assets being acquired to address an operational need. You whinge if we don't have them and whinge when we do go and get them.

Why on earth is ANYONE laughing at this? Almost every Air force on the face of the planet occasionally purchases second hand aircraft and equipment, this is no different.

Odd...

pr00ne, I'm not sure of any history going on between you two but...

The forecast paucity of Tac AT was plane (oops) for all to see when I was at Strike back when it was still called Strike...the retirement of the K fleet required the J to fill the capability gap (circa 2012 - 2016 back then) of its niche customers before A400m is declared operational.

It's a sorry state of affairs to firstly create a capability gap; and then to simply stand around staring at it whilst we kick imaginary stones around the mouth of the chasm in front of us...

The navy and the army have both suffered in similar ways with some of their asset acquisitions/terminations.

We never seem to learn though, as one other poster said in a previous thread - the Tristars were a temporary Strat AT stop-gap in 1986...so temporary they're still in service now!