Originally Posted by
PhilipG
Something that I have not seen discussed on here is the swing role of the F35 support teams.
If a Carrier is having a surge complement of F35s, will all the maintainers be FAA or will it be a mix of FAA and RAF? The subsidiary question here is what extra training will the RAF personnel have to equip them to be "safe" on a carrier?
Then of course there is the question about who owns the spares, particularly the B specific parts if there is a mixed buy, together with what level of spares will normally be aboard a deployable carrier?
I am not implying that any of these questions have not been thought through, I personally have not seen any discussion of them though.
This is an interesting point.
Na, just fudge it.